Errors Quotes

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The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor… — Douglas Adams
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has… — C.S. Lewis
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things… — Lynne Truss
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order… — Marilynne Robinson
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It… — Jim Rohn
I am so hip even my errors are correct — Nikki Giovanni
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to… — Thomas Jefferson
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time. — A. Lee Martinez
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked… — Irenaeus of Lyons
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead… — Henry Ward Beecher
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of… — William L. Shirer
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off… — William James
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect… — Rene Descartes
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. — Allan Bloom
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your… — Nick Hornby
Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get… — Charles Stross
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. — Bret Easton Ellis

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