823 Quotes About Errors

The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

The errors we made were uncharacteristic of us. What if this, what if that. We needed some key hits here and there, and we didn't get them.

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.