Quotes About Error

Each stage of theistic belief grows out of the preceding stage, and if it can be shown that the beginning of this evolution arose in a huge blunder I quite fail to see how any subsequent development can convert this unmistakable blunder into a demonstrable truth.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.

The Greek geographers of Alexandria, when they prepared their world map using the circumference of Eratosthenes, had in front of them source maps that had been drawn without the Eratosthenian error, that is, apparently without any discernible error at all. We shall see further evidence of this, evidence suggesting that the people who originated the maps possessed a more advanced science than that of the Greeks.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

Meanwhile, in assessing responsibility for the attempted arson, murder, and strike action, Robert Wilmott had made one grave mistake. He suspected the wrong person.

If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Working over 21 hours in a stretch increases the odds of you making a catastrophic error just as much as being legally drunk.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLA NASRUDIN

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

We have had a number of books casting the acid of angry rejection over the spirit of our age. They are not in error; it is only that in many cases they do not get us anywhere.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Notwithstanding all its progress, philosophy has been unable as yet to offer the masses any ideal that can charm them; but, as they must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who accord them what they want. Not truth, but error has always been the chief factor in the evolution of nations,

Las masas no tienen jamás sed de verdades. Ante las evidencias que las desagradan, se apartan, prefiriendo divinizar al error, si el error las seduce. Quien sabe ilusionarlas se convierte fácilmente en su amo; el que intenta desilusionarlas es siempre su víctima.