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Errors Quotes - Page 54

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.129, Psychology Press

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

"Barbra Streisand: Dream House Interview" by James Reginato, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 22, 2010.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.67, e-artnow

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Error is the price we pay for progress.

"Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence? That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights, which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision? Those, who know any thing of human nature, will not hesitate to answer these questions in the affirmative.

Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.378, Madison & Adams Press

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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.

William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely New Collation of the Old Editions, with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.114

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.244, A&C Black

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.72, BookCaps Study Guides