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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. -- Isaac Newton
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. -- Publilius Syrus
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. -- Jim Rohn
Errors are many, truth is unique. -- Pyotr Kapitsa
Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Errors, failures, They are just experiences that will obligate you to evolve. -- Roberto Llamas
Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. -- Nelson Mandela
Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. -- Craig Venter
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. -- Charles Babbage
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. -- Thomas Jefferson
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power. -- Mason Cooley
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. -- William Blake
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. -- Voltaire
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. -- Ayn Rand
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. -- John Dryden
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. -- Sydney Smith
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. -- George Eliot
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did. -- Russell L. Ackoff
A man's errors are what make him amiable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. -- Andrew Mason
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. -- James Buchan
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. -- Jim Rohn
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before. -- Arthur Guiterman
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. -- Jim Rohn
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. -- Nikki Giovanni
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. -- Thomas Jefferson
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. -- Herbert Hoover
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. -- Lord Acton
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. -- Hugh Walpole
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. -- Paul Nitze
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. -- Dale E. Turner
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. -- Thomas Jefferson
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. -- John Locke
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. -- Isaac Asimov
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -- John Locke
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. -- Isaac Asimov
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. -- George Washington
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively. -- Yehuda Berg
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. -- Plutarch
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. -- Aleister Crowley
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. -- Felix Dennis
Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. -- Don King
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -- Anais Nin
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. -- William James
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 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
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it. -- George M. Whitesides
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old errors -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke -- Hermann Hesse
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before -- Arthur Guiterman
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong -- Georges Bidault
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution -- Thomas Jefferson
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it -- Samuel Johnson
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 -- William James
Inborn errors of metabolism. -- Archibald Garrod
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
When truth is divided, errors multiply. -- Eli Siegel
Habit is the nursery of errors. -- Victor Hugo
No great saint lived without errors. -- Martin Luther
Despair is the greatest of our errors. -- Luc de Clapiers
The smallest errors are always the best. -- Moliere
A column about errors will contain errors. -- Bill Gold
Actually everyting is right, even the errors. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Perfection is a polished collection of errors. -- Mario Benedetti
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. -- Frank Herbert
Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a frail vessel full of errors. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. -- Vladimir Lenin
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. -- James Joyce
there's no defense except all the errors made -- Charles Bukowski
There were grammatical errors even in his silence. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors. -- Laozi
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves. -- Karl Popper
No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening. -- Troy Aikman
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed. -- Leo Buscaglia
There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society. -- Marshall McLuhan
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. -- Bertrand Russell
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes. -- Dejan Stojanovic
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. -- Henry David Thoreau
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors. -- Jim Clyburn
My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined. -- Jan Tschichold
I am so hip even my errors are correct -- Nikki Giovanni
he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors -- Martin Heidegger
I want to be the victim of his errors. -- Marquis de Sade
Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game. -- Ernest Kurtz
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. -- Yogi Berra
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. -- Aldous Huxley
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors. -- Miles Davis
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas Huxley
Being a family in general is a comedy of errors. -- Shannon Woodward
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance. -- William Ellery Channing
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors. -- Ambrose Bierce
More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior. -- Morris L. Ernst
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, -- Thomas Paine
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. -- Petrarch
I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. -- Sylvia Plath
I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them -- Karen Marie Moning
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. -- Paul Dickson

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