Errors Quotes
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
T. S. Eliot
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
E. B. White
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Frances Wright
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant
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What are man's truths ultimately?
Merely his irrefutable errors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
Jonathan Swift
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The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
William Francis Buckley
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A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
J. G. Stedman
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There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.
John Lilly