Errors Quotes

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements… — Jean Rostand
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is… — Jean Rostand
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. — Donald Rumsfeld
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. — Donald Rumsfeld
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if… — Donald Rumsfeld
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. — Benjamin Rush
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. — Bertrand Russell
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle… — Friedrich Schiller
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. — Arthur Schopenhauer
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our… — Will Self
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet. — Ayrton Senna
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. — Michael Shermer
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain… — Sydney Smith
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is… — Zadie Smith
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. — Tom Stoppard
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. — Barbra Streisand
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. — Thomas Szasz
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. — Rabindranath Tagore
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. — Alvin Toffler

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