Error Quotes

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. (Cicero)
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. View quote
Cicero
Delay is preferable to error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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. View quote
Andrew Jackson
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. View quote
Thomas Paine
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Error is discipline through which we advance. (William Ellery Channing)
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
John C. Calhoun
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. View quote
Howard H. Aiken
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. View quote
Francis Bacon
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. View quote
Edward de Bono
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. View quote
Anatole France
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. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
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. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. (Max Born)
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Love truth, but pardon error. View quote
Voltaire
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. View quote
Voltaire