Quotes
Quotes about Error
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is ... by teaching every man to think for himself.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his virtues.
The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must error.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
