Convenient Quote by James Madison

An error isn't an error until a standard is set. Set a leninent standard for yourself or it wouldn't be fair to you either.

— Terry Mark

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

— Aaron Burr

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

— Colin Greenwood

That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and…

— James Madison

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

— Ronald Reagan

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

— William E. Gladstone

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an…

— Josiah Royce

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.

— Vladimir Putin

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can…

— Carol Bellamy

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

— Nelson Mandela

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

— Anonymous