Error Quotes

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

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

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

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

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.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

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

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

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.

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.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

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

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.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

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.

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