Errors Quotes

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Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but… — Charles Caleb Colton
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface… — John Dryden
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. — Henry Fielding
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. — Alfred North Whitehead
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa cÂ° able sans la gra"Â ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error… — Blaise Pascal
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would… — Pope Francis
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the… — Izaak Walton
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. — Felix Frankfurter
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. — Anatole France
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other… — Pope Francis
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. — John Kenneth Galbraith
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. — Mahatma Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess… — Mahatma Gandhi
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. — Mahatma Gandhi
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic… — Teri Garr
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from… — Charles de Gaulle

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