Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

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

He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

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

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

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

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

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

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

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

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

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

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