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

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni

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.
Levon Helm

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.
Martin Gore

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
Ayrton Senna

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.
Michael Servetus

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

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.
Bob Woodward

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.
Josiah Royce

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes

No one who lives in error is free.
Euripides

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
Robbie Coltraine

Obscurity is the realm of error.
Luc de Clapier

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Camille Pissarro

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.
Ferdinand Mount

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
Sidney Blumenthal

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze