Errors Quotes

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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. — Paul de Man
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. — Baruch Spinoza
One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude… — Edgar Cayce
Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize… — Mao Zedong
Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can… — Frederic Bastiat
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every… — Thomas Jefferson
We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human. — Michael C. Burgess
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to… — William Thurston
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether… — Thomas Hobbes
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. — Stephen Jay Gould
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse. — John Kessel
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One… — John Kessel
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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