Error Quotes
These are some of the best 'Error' quotations and sayings.
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
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Error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment giving assent to that which is not true.
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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Errors of theory or doctrine are not so much false statements, as partial statements. - Half a truth received, while the corresponding half is unknown or rejected, is a practical falsehood.
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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. - It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. - From pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief.
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False doctrine does not necessarily make the man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
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Few practical errors in the world are embraced on conviction, but on inclination; for though the judgment may err on account of weakness, yet, where one error enters at this door, ten are let into it through the will; that, for the most part, being set upon those things which truth is a direct obstacle to the enjoyment of; and where both cannot be had, a man will be sure to buy his enjoyment, though he pays down truth for the purchase.
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Half the truth will very often amount to absolute falsehood.
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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In its influence on the soul, error has been compared to a magnet concealed near the ship's compass. - As in the latter case, the more favorable the winds, and the greater the diligence and skill in working the ship, the more rapidly will it be speeded on in a wrong course; and so in the former, the greater the struggle for safety, the more speedy the progress to ruin.
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It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Malinformation is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the wrong direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth, than ignorance.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, "The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall."
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Our understandings are always liable to error. - Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretence.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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