Error Quotes

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

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

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

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

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.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

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

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.