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Quotes about Errors


Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Alexander Pope

If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you 'll forget them all.

Alexander Pope

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

Edgar Allan Poe

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Abraham Lincoln

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled,
Are healed with the healing that night has shed.

Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge) Woolsey

The king of terrors.

Old Testament

Expert: Avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

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Errors like straws upon the surface flow:

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Francis Bacon

If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper.

Jane Goodsell

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Dale Unknown

I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes, And in her eye there hath appeared a fire To burn the errors that these princes hold Against her maiden truth.

William Shakespeare

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.

John W. Scoville

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Bernard M. Baruch

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Bible

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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