Errors Quotes

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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. — Carl Jung
Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal… — Michio Kaku
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas… — John Maynard Keynes
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants,… — Alveda King
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. — Billie Jean King
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at… — Florence King
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of… — Jeffrey Kluger
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor… — Lactantius
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. — George Henry Lewes
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. — Walter Lippmann
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. — John Locke
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. — John Locke
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and… — James Madison
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. — Bryant H. McGill
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have… — Ian Mcewan
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be… — H. L. Mencken
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first… — Thomas Merton

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