Error Quotes

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man Mistakes Idiot Only Make His Error Persists Any

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 Self-Respect Mistake Mistakes Judgment Our Adhere Admit Only Highest Highest Form Make Discovered Error Errors Amends Form Them Shows

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire

Nature Humanity Law First Tolerance Other Frailty Pardon Folly First Law Error Formed Us Each Let Us Consequence

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. Alveda King

Racism Abortion Thinking Symptoms Our Way Our Lives Out Someone Both Stem Poisonous Selfishness Error Person Same Getting Human Wants Human Error Justify Root Stands Fundamental Lives

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth Truth Is Weakness More Directly Mislead Powers Opinion False Discovery Error Effectively Preconceived Which Prejudice Reasoning Appearance Things Present

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. George Henry Lewes

Strength Weakness Insincerity Sincerity Always Error Even

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Edmund Burke

Welfare Loudest General Suppose Most Error Anxious Public Popular

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Mahatma Gandhi

Truth Become Propagation Sees Nobody Because Does Nor Error Reason

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. Ramana Maharshi

Nature Thoughts Man Strong Evil Every Think Weak Habits Divine He Himself Greatest Real His Error Every Man Desires

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. Thomas Paine

Truth Inquiry Only Error Shrinks

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. Nikki Giovanni

Life Mistakes Response Fact Counts Error

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin

Death Suffering Losing Giving Living Postpone Risking Error Chance

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson

Truth Alone Government Needs Support Error Itself Which Stand

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. Andrew Jackson

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man Fool Liable Only Err Error Persists Any

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

Truth Alone Knowledge Rests Also Error

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. Joko Beck

Blessing Trouble Think Our Minds Way Plenty Self-Awareness Self-Centered Come Also Understand Greatest Greatest Blessing Error Get Which Us Downfall

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. Robert Jackson

Government Citizen Falling Error Function Keep

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II

Religion Science Purify Superstition Absolutes Idolatry False Error

Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson

Delay Error Preferable

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