Errors Quotes
1544 quotes by 1029 authors
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We do not find truth groveling through error.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a…
— Julia Glass
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions…
— Michael Chabon
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Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.
— Barry Hughart
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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
— Linus Pauling
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,…
— H.G. Wells
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Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but…
— Ayn Rand
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And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah…
— Os Guinness
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
— Rene Daumal
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I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.
— Warren Zevon
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of…
— Salman Rushdie
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
— Bertrand Russell
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The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as…
— Carl Sagan
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Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of…
— C.S. Lewis
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It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many…
— Charles Dickens
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But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
— Jacqueline Carey
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