Errors Quotes

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Mind, Nothing

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, Humility, Enough

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma Gandhi

Away, Stronger, Leaves

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Free, Opinion

Errors Quote

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

Wise, Others, Corrects

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

Love, Death, Natural

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

Failure, Single, Few

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Last, Mankind, Truths

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington

Experience, Past, Purpose

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn

Philosophy, Whether, Continue

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

Failure, Few, Simply

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill

Person, Find, Afraid

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Law, Full

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale

Mistakes, Important, Learn

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley

Truth, Through, Succession

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, Door, Shut

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch

Good, Power, Future

Habit is the nursery of errors.
Victor Hugo

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine

Reason, Against, Weapon

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James

Heart, Seems, Spite

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov

Men, Number, Pregnant

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Age, Experience, Light

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Yourself, Nothing, Admit

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science, Long, Words

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Mistakes, Makes, Genius

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley

Difficult, Physics, Practice

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, End, Cannot

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Discovery, Portals

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

May, Truths, Harmful

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