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Quotes About Error

You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.
~ Jim Butcher
When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.
~ Jim Butcher
You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.
~ Jim Butcher
Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error
~ Jim George
it's my own *** fault.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I remember swimming (albeit nervously, for I was a nervous child, afraid of sinkholes and afraid of snakes, and perhaps that was the beginning of my error)
~ Joan Didion
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
~ Jodi Picoult
Leave it to a man to mess things up
~ Jodi Picoult
When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.
~ Jodi Picoult
No vice is so bad as advice.
~ Marie Dressler
A mistake doesn't make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.
~ Unknown
To err is human; to forgive takes time.
~ Unknown
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
if the Bible is a revelation of truth, then anything that contradicts it must be false.
~ Unknown
By this book, he defines for man truth and error, and right and wrong.
~ Unknown
It is clear to me that there is a je ne sais quoi - I already see it in your words, pictures of some little corners in Paris, etc., even now I should see it in your first sketches and studies. When I think of Father, it seems to me that the good in him is due to his intercourse with nature, and in my opinion his error is that he attaches more value to other things than they are really worth.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Quoi qu'elles entreprennent, on doit pouvoir démontrer qu'elles s'y sont mal prises. Il n'y a pas d'attitude correcte, on a forcément commis une erreur dans nos choix, on est tenues pour responsables d'une faillite qui est en réalité collective, et mixte. Les armes contre notre genre sont spécifiques, mais la méthode s'applique aux hommes. Un bon consommateur est un consommateur insécure.
~ Virginie Despentes
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
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
Love truth, and pardon error.
~ Voltaire
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
~ Voltaire
Man is nature's sole mistake.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Drama is based on the Mistake.
~ W.H. Auden