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Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. — Richard Mant

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world. — Billy Graham

Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies. — Criss Jami

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. — Anonymous

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins

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

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. — Louis Aragon

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention. — Stand Watie

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts. — Jerry Coleman

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me. — Jenny Downham

Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error. — Francis Bacon

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error. — Jake Roberts

Don't make the error of believing the papers know everything, and strive to know everything the papers won't believe. — Rachel Heffington

Error is but the shadow of the truth. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. — Thomas Carlyle

Death is within anybody's grasp. The greater challenge is to live, and to love despite our error's and failings. — Grace Burrowes

Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions. — Roberto Bolano

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. — Victor Hugo

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. — William Carlos Williams

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort — Gene Kranz

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin

The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will. — Louise Erdrich

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you. — Vannetta Chapman

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. — Jacob Bigelow

To err is human, to purr is feline. — Robert Byrne

Error handling is important, but if it obscures logic, it's wrong. — Robert C. Martin

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design. — William Blake

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist. — Novalis

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven. — Jim Butcher

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. — Francis Bacon

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of. — Andrew Solomon

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. — Marilyn Vos Savant

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION — Marsha Wright

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton

You correct an error by bringing truth to it. — Wayne W. Dyer

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. — Thomas Jefferson

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. — Jeremy Taylor

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane. — Jon Michael Riley

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. — Bertrand Russell

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error. — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. — Thomas Carlyle

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. — Anatole France

Error is discipline through which we advance. — William Ellery Channing

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability? — Thorsten J. Pattberg

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Error is to err, as blanket is to blank. — Jarod Kintz

If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself. — Foundation For Inner Peace

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. — Cyprian

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? — Thomas Sowell

The error never lies with facts but with how they're used. — Marty Rubin

It is only very slightly later, when my client's head is sliced off, that I realise I have made an error. My career is finished. — Stanley Donwood

Error of omission begets new rules. — Toba Beta

Beware of following a train of thought. — Marty Rubin

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. — Alexander Lowen

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. — John Kenneth Galbraith

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan

A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority. — Timothy Snyder

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. — George Ryan

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. — C.S. Lewis

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good. — John Lancaster Spalding

He whom is without typos, throw the first stone. — Antonia Perdu

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. — Ambrose Bierce

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs. — Christiane Collange

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth. — John Locke

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

How is an error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare

Some of us learned long ago not to pee in the pool in which we swim., seeing the error in thinking that wealth-at-any-cost could buy you a new pool. — Karla Black

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. — Hugh Walpole

Error is always more busy than truth. — Hosea Ballou

He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error. — Pope Leo I

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. — Thomas Paine

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. — Andy Rooney

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared. — Israelmore Ayivor

An error becomes an error when born as truth. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Where there is much freedom there is much error. — Friedrich Schiller

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. — Werner Heisenberg

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives. — Ben Bernanke

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. — Arthur Keith

We're so busy keeping busy that we fail to see the error of our ways. — Frank Sonnenberg

Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. — Arno C. Gaebelein

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. — Benjamin Franklin

We do not find truth groveling through error. — Thomas S. Monson

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. — Thomas Jefferson