Errors Quotes

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Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of… — C.S. Lewis
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is… — George Eliot
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. — George Bernard Shaw
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be… — Carlos Slim
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. — Vilfredo Pareto
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.… — Camille Paglia
From error to error one discovers the entire truth. — Sigmund Freud
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. — Hugh Walpole
The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief. — Thomas Russell
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. — William Carlos Williams
Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history. — C. V. Wedgwood
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. — Edmund Burke
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. — James Joyce
Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where… — Francis of Assisi
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such… — Aristotle
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should… — Benjamin Franklin
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of… — Thomas Berry
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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