#Error Quotes

“I that please some, try all, both joy and terrorOf good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”

“The error of our eye directs our mind.What error leads must err.”

“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.”

“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”

“Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”

“You correct an error by bringing truth to it.”

“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”

“Habit is the nursery of errors.”

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

“Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers”

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

“There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.”

“The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.”

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”

“Delay is preferable to error.”

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

“Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.”

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”

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

“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

“Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.”

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.”

“It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.”

“Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.”

“Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.”

“Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.”

“Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.”

“One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.”

“It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.”

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”

“One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.”

“When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.”

“The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.”

“Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.”

“The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.”

“To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.”

“It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism”

“Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.”

“The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”

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

“Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.”

“Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.”

“There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.”

“To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]”

“Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.”

“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”