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If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered.
In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.