Errors Quotes

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. — Confucius
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. — Thomas Browne
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. — Andy Rooney
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… — Michelangelo
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our… — Albert Camus
Error itself may be happy chance. — Alfred North Whitehead
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and… — Lewis Mumford
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. — Diana Trilling
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. — Lewis Thomas
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy,… — Mary Baker Eddy
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. — Jacob Bronowski
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error,… — Josiah Royce

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