Quotes About Error

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

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.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.