Errors Quotes

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The… — Oscar Wilde
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such… — Charles Caleb Colton
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain… — Jonathan Swift
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. — J. G. Holland
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances… — Marcel Proust
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… — John Ruskin
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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