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Error is discipline through which we advance. -- William Ellery Channing
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Error is ever talkative. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Error is always talkative. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Error is worse than ignorance. -- Philip James Bailey
Error has never approached my spirit. -- Klemens von Metternich
Error is created; truth is eternal. -- William Blake
Error itself may be happy chance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Error is ever the sequence of haste. -- Duke of Wellington
Error is always more busy than truth. -- Hosea Ballou
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. -- Victor Hugo
Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue. -- Woody Allen
Error is but the shadow of the truth. -- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Error is the price we pay for progress. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Error often is to be preferred to indecision. -- Aaron Burr
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting. -- Aimee Liu
Error is part of the overhead of doing research -- Michael Ghiselin
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth. -- Marcel Proust
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before. -- Arthur Guiterman
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before -- Arthur Guiterman
Error is most painful when it is found inside the family. -- Max Anders
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth -- Carl Jung
Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families. -- Steve Farrar
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal. -- James Longstreet
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. -- Josh Billings
Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix. -- Dick Taylor
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design. -- William Blake
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. -- William C. Bryant
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! -- Alexander Pope
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. -- John Locke
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. -- Pablo Picasso
Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself. -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. -- Leo Tolstoy
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. -- Allan Bloom
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. -- Walter Gilbert
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. -- Moliere
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. -- Benjamin Rush
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. -- Paul Nitze
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. -- Eric Sevareid
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. -- John Locke
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. -- Dale Turner
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. -- Teri Garr
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. -- James Madison
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. -- Andrew Jackson
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. -- Voltaire
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. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. -- David Cameron
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. -- Bruce Barton
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. -- Kelly Miller
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. -- Florence King
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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. -- Dale Turner
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. -- Gloria Steinem
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. -- Swami Vivekananda
In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work. -- Jed S. Rakoff
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' -- Nicholas Jarecki
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. -- Saint Basil
#ERROR! -- Stephenie Meyer
Truth burns up error. -- Sojourner Truth
Love truth, but pardon error. -- Voltaire
Love truth, and pardon error. -- Voltaire
Delay is preferable to error -- Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is error burned up. -- Norman O. Brown
Every error is truth abused. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
How is error possible in mathematics? -- Henri Poincare
Obscurity is the realm of error. -- Luc de Clapiers
Without error, there is no brilliancy. -- Emanuel Lasker
Obscurity is the kingdom of error. -- Luc de Clapiers
Pain is not an evolutionary error. -- Mathis Wackernagel
Haste breeds error; error breeds woe. -- Janet Morris
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. -- Mary Baker Eddy
History is an accumulation of error. -- Norman Cousins
For the robust, an error is information. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Custom without truth is error grown old. -- Tertullian
Untouchability is an error of long standing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Honest error may play prologue to wonders. -- Ari Berk
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. -- Edward Gibbon
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless." -- Edward Gibbon
Without error there can be no brilliancy -- Emanuel Lasker
You conquer error by denying its verity. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Pure innovation is more gross than error. -- George Chapman
Genius is the error in the system. -- Paul Klee
You look wise, pray correct that error. -- Charles Lamb
You don't endorse error, you allow it. -- Jack Hyles
Honor thy error as a hidden intention. -- Brian Eno
A life without music is an error. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is one, but error is manifold. -- Simone Weil
Too great haste leads us to error. -- Moliere
Copy and paste is a design error. -- David Parnas
Progress is the exploration of our own error. -- Jacob Bronowski
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. -- Francis Picabia
We do not find truth groveling through error. -- Thomas S. Monson
No one who lives in error is free. -- Euripides
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. -- Frank Herbert
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process. -- Jonas Salk
There is no effort without error or shortcoming. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Custom is often only the antiquity of error. -- Cyprian
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. -- Lord Chesterfield
Nudity is undignified and an error of taste -- Adolf Hitler
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. -- William Cowper
Love dies because its birth was an error. -- Susan Sontag
There is no original truth, only original error. -- Gaston Bachelard
[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error. -- C. S. Lewis
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt -- Lev Landau
Many a truth is the result of an error. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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