Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Donald Rumsfeld

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Keith Henson

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Benjamin Rush

Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Jan de Hartog

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Philip K. Dick

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

Error is always more busy than truth.
Hosea Ballou

Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing

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.
Louis Aragon

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.
Robert Owen

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Vilfredo Pareto

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Lord Chesterfield

How is an error possible in mathematics?
Henri Poincare