Error Quotes

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Become, Reason

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Public, General, Popular

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.
Bruce Barton

Change, Hope, Fear

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Government, Alone

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Ignorance, Nothing

Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson

Delay, Preferable

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Reason, Oppression

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

Character, Mistakes, Mistake

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.
Swami Vivekananda

Power, Greatest, Cannot

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

Death, Giving, Living

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.
Voltaire

Nature, Humanity, Law

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.
George Washington

Experience, Real, Pride

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mistakes, Idiot, Persists

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

Religion, Science, False

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire

Progress, Ocean, Rivers

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King

Someone, Human, Person

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age, Long, Young

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

Life, Truth, Times

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine

Truth, Inquiry, Shrinks

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin

Good, Truth, Sometimes

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

Fact, Judgment, Based

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Great, May, Free

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Truth, Beautiful, Rise

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.
Thomas Merton

God, Truth, Step

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.
Teri Garr

Yourself, Find, Accept

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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth, Opinion, Present

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung

Truth, Knowledge, Alone

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fool, Err, Liable

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Fool, Person

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas J. Watson

Succeed, Double, Rate

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