Quotes: Error

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

No man’s error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.