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There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.
If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.
A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?