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“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair”
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“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“Error is just as important a condition of life as truth”
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“Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error”
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“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 E. Turner Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“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”
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“It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered”
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“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.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Mountain Sunrise)
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“Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as
trophies unto the enemies of truth.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. VI)
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“Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.”
William Ellery Channing Quotes Source: Address on The Present Age
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“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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Philippicoe (XII, 2)
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“By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
[Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 17)
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“The cautious seldom err.”
Confucius Quotes Source: Analects (bk. IV, ch. XXIII)
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“Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Poem on Truth (l. 1)
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“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: All for Love (prologue)
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“Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Beggar's Opera (act II, sc. 2)
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“While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Faust--Prolog im Himmel--Der Herr (l. 77)
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“There are men who never err, because they never propose anything
rational.
[Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich
nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
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“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.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 50)
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“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
Victor Hugo Quotes Source: La Legende des Siecles
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“When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.
[Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout le monde a raison.]”
Pierre Claude N. La Chaussee Quotes Source: La Gouvernante (I, 3)
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“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.”
John Locke Quotes Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (bk. IV, Of Wrong Assent or Error, ch. XX)
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