Error Quotes

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.

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

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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.

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.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

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.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.