Error Quotes

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

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

Obscurity is the realm of error.

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

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Delay is preferable to error.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.