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