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The beauty of clarification often makes settled edges feel soothed, but it is in mislabeled musings that genuine inquiry sparks unfamiliar aura.
Author:
Clara Endsley
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Our faults forge a path, setting our feet against tradition, whispering creative explorations in disguise; to lose false pride in perfection invites authenticity.
Author:
Eloise Veldran
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Faced with unintentional choices, intentional creators cultivate their depth; prisons become panoramas where courage learns to sketch brightness from shadows.
Author:
Emily Estrada
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Sometimes the unwelcome splashes of youth's folly form a masterpiece no careful brush could envision.
Author:
Elara Vanguard
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Author:
Francis Wright
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
Author:
Richard Whately
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The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Author:
Thomas Watson
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If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
Author:
Stand Watie
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Author:
George Washington
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Author:
Hugh Walpole
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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.
Author:
Voltaire
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Author:
Voltaire
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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.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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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.
Author:
Dale Turner
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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.
Author:
Dale Turner
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Author:
Alvin Toffler
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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
Author:
Lewis Thomas
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Author:
Anna Spencer
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Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
Author:
Tony Snow
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There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
Author:
Paul Simon
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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Author:
Eric Sevareid
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Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
Author:
Ayrton Senna
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To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
Author:
John Sebastian
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Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
Author:
Lee Scott
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
Author:
George Ryan
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Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
Author:
George Ryan
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Author:
Benjamin Rush
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In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.
Author:
Jake Roberts
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Author:
Ernest Renan
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Author:
Thomas Reid
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To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
Author:
Rodrigo Rato
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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How is an error possible in mathematics?
Author:
Henri Poincare
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Author:
Camille Pissarro
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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Author:
Francis Picabia
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Author:
Vilfredo Pareto
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Author:
Vilfredo Pareto
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Author:
Robert Owen
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If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Author:
Roger Oech
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To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
Author:
Donald Norman
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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Author:
Albert Nock
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Author:
Paul Nitze
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Author:
Anais Nin
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It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
Author:
Robert Musil
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
Author:
William Mulholland
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Author:
Ferdinand Mount
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Author:
Moliere
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It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
Author:
Heather Mills
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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.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
Author:
Paul Man
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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.
Author:
James Madison
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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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.
Author:
John Locke
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Author:
John Locke
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
Author:
Joseph Lightfoot
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
Author:
George Lewes
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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Author:
Michael Ledeen
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I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
Author:
C. Koop
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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.
Author:
Florence King
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Author:
Billie King
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The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
Author:
David Keene
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Author:
Henry John
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Delay is preferable to error.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Author:
Robert Jackson
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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.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Author:
Horace
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Author:
George Herbert
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Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Author:
Keith Henson
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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
Author:
Levon Helm
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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Author:
Jan Hartog
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Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
Author:
Arthur Guiterman
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Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Author:
Martin Gore
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
Author:
William Godwin
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Author:
George Gillespie
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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.
Author:
Teri Garr
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Author:
John Galbraith
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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
Author:
John Fogerty
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Author:
Sarah Fielding
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You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
Author:
Suzanne Farrell
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No one who lives in error is free.
Author:
Euripides
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Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Author:
Rene Descartes
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
Author:
Luc Clapier
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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.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.
Author:
George Chapman
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
Author:
William Channing
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
Author:
William Channing
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I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?
Author:
Lincoln Chafee
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Author:
Alexis Carrel
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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.
Author:
David Cameron
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
Author:
John Calhoun
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Author:
Robert Burton
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
Author:
Michael Burgess
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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.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
Author:
William Bryant
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
Author:
William Bryan
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The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
Author:
William Bryan
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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Author:
Lakhdar Brahimi
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On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
Author:
Sidney Blumenthal
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Author:
Orlando Battista
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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.
Author:
Bruce Barton
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Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
Author:
Todd Barry
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Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Author:
Christine Baranski
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Error is always more busy than truth.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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There is no original truth, only original error.
Author:
Gaston Bachelard
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Author:
Raymond Aron
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Author:
Louis Aragon
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Author:
Louis Aragon
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Author:
Howard Aiken
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Author:
Lord Acton
