Errors Quotes

• Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

  Jim Rohn

  Success, Greatness, Judgment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 11, 2017

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• The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

  Dale E. Turner

  Past, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles. . . . All the doctors have ascribed to the water a power which it does not have and the holy apostles did not teach.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Doctors, Water, Baptism

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• From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Mistake

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• Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

  Andrew Mason

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, I Make Mistakes

  Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.52, Trafford Publishing

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• Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Failure, Have A Great Day

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 31, 2016

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• Error is created; truth is eternal.

  William Blake

  Truth, Truth Is, Eternal

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Wisdom, Fun

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• Truth is error burned up.

  Norman O. Brown

  Truth, Truth Is, Burned

  Norman O. Brown (1968). “Love's Body”

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Mistake, Educational

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• To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Mistake, Character

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• In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

  Hugh Walpole

  Truth, Lying, Failure

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• We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Past, Experience

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mistake, Demise, Truth Is

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• If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

  "Stray Birds".

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• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Sports, Mistake

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Funny, Truth, Mistake

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, Intellectual

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• Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 1 (1739)

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• There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Failing, Defenders

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

  Isaac Newton

  Art

  Principia Mathematica preface (1687) (translation by Andrew Motte)

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• Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Fall, Choices

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.142, Revell

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• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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