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It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. — Seneca the Younger
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca the Younger
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed. — Leo Buscaglia
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For… — Martin Farquhar Tupper
There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home. — Lester Levenson
Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging… — Michael J. Fox
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other… — Clifford Allbutt
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago,… — Hiram Maxim
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the… — D. V. Ager
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. — Charles Kettering
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true… — Charles Babbage
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those… — Soren Kierkegaard
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors. — Ambrose Bierce
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. — James A. Garfield
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need… — David Brin
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. — Leo Tolstoy
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent,… — Mahatma Gandhi

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