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“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his
virtues.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. IV, ch. III)
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“The smallest errors are always the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: L'Etourdi (IV, 4)
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“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: L'Etourdi (IV, 4)
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“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
Edward J. Phelps Quotes Source: Speech at Mansion House, London, quoting Bishop W.C. Magee of Peterborough in 1868
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“For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is
at least human.”
Plutarch Quotes Source: Morals--Against Colotes the Epicurean
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“Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 9)
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“When people once are in the wrong,
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: Alma (canto III, l. 194)
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“To err is human.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: Alma (canto III, l. 194)
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“So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at V, ii)
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“Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
What error leads must error.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Cressida at V, ii)
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“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
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“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
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“A man's errors are what make him amiable.”
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“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”
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“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”
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“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
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“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
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“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”
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“In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.”
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“In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.”
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