Errors Quotes
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There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
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Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.
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When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
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Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
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Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
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Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
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All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
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When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.
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The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
