823 Quotes About Errors

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.

Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.