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Quotes about Error


Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.

William Blake

In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and blemish find, To our own stronger errors blind.

John Gay

Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.

Sydney Smith

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Paul Dickson

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.

Oliver Goldsmith

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Voltaire

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

F. M. Knowles

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri-Fréderic Amiel

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.

Alan Wilson Voltaire

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Louis Aragon

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Jean Baudrillard

Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally--bidding the lip of man Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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

Alexis Carrel

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

Thomas Tusser

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Dag Hammarskjold

Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over to Jenin and its Refugee Camp As battlefields in a minute Clouds of black smokes belched From the nozzle of the missiles Turned the dwellings into debris And lives breathe under rubble Still desires of living That will never be fulfilled Sighing are heard in the air Unseen ghosts are roaming freely Searching their brotherhoods Living or dead Souls are still weeping bitterly With sorrows that never end In the war turned atmosphere Flying high in the sky appeared The hungry vultures that smell Odors of rotten human flesh As if the open graveyards To wipe the terrors and even its ghosts Out of the worldly atmosphere Reassuring pure peace In every people’s mind Is’t the rebirth of terror Or alternative terror ? © Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.

Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

George Bidault

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