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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.
Margaret Fuller

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Anna Garlin Spencer

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

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

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson

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.
Robert Jackson

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand

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

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

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
Robert Musil

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
Heather Mills

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
Paul Simon

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Francis Picabia

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

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Louis Aragon

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
Paul de Man

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Jeremy Taylor

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset Maugham