823 Quotes About Errors

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

I'm not suggesting there are any errors at all. I'm saying that without a proper audit, there's no way to be sure.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.