Error Quotes

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"To slave away on the pointless business of m...

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he kn...

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are...

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the wor...

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values t...

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth

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

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into...

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error ...

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should ...

Truth is immortal error is mortal.

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its ra...

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the stu...

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free ...

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you...

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what mus...

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. T...

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion emb...

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not...

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unl...

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the w...

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other wor...

To err is human to forgive divine.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the...

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

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

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

And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

There is no original truth, only original error.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?