Error Quotes

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

There is no original truth, only original error.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

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

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

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

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Error is always more busy than truth.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

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

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.