| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so, But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. |
| Andrew V Mason | Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. |
| Alexander Pope | Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. |
| Confucius | The cautious seldom err. |
| Edward J Phelps | The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. |
| Henry St John | Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. |
| Horatius Flaccus | One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. |
| James Joyce | A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | The smallest errors are always the best. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | A man's errors are what make him amiable. |
| John Dryden | Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. |
| John Gay | Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. |
| John Locke | Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. |
| John Locke | All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. |
| Leo Tolstoy | Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. |
| Matthew Prior | When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way. |
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