Sayings about Errors
Every error has its excuse. ~ Polish Proverbs
To err is human. ~ Traditional Proverb
An old error is always more popular than a new truth. ~ German Proverbs
An old error has more friends than a new truth. ~ Danish Proverbs
A book is a good friend when it lays bare the errors of the past. ~ Indian Proverbs
A one-inch error at the start can be a thousand miles at the end. ~ Chinese Prsoverb
One moment’s error becomes a lifetime of sadness. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Errors
Where there is much freedom there is much error. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
A double error sometimes sets us right. ~ Philip James Bailey
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. ~ St. Augustine
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wise man corrects his own errors by observing those of others. ~ Publilius Syrus
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ Thomas Paine
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.~ Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
Man errs as long as he strives. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ~ Samuel Butler
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ~ Jim Rohn
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s error than from his virtues. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ~ Andrew V. Mason
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~ Grenville Kleiser
Error is discipline through which we advance. ~ William Ellery Channing
Error is just as important a condition of life as truth. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. ~ Ayn Rand
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. ~ Francis Bacon
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
He is a thorough accountant who can cast up correctly the sum of his own errors. ~ Eliza Cook
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth. ~ Marcel Proust
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. ~ Francis Picabia
The wisest of the wise may err. ~ Aeschylus
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.~ Charles Caleb Colton
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favour of that which is old. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. ~ Sir Arthur Keith
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. ~ George Sand
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ~ Syrus
All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble. ~ Sophocles
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ~ Sigmund Freud
n error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. ~ Caroline L. Gascoigne
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Dark Error’s other hidden side is truth. ~ Victor Hugo
The smallest errors are always the best. ~ Moliere
One error persisted in, frequently produces others. ~ Samuel Richardson
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. ~ Thomas Binney
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. ~ Francesco Petrarch
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. ~ William law
A man’s errors are what make him amiable.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce
Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. ~ Louis Aragon
No one who lives in error is free. ~ Euripides
The error of the past is the success of the future.
Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before. ~ Arthur Guiterman
Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
There is no original truth, only original error. ~ Gaston Bachelard
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. ~ Martin F. Tupper
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. ~ Mary Baker Eddy
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Error is always more busy than truth. ~ Hosea Ballou
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise. ~ Aeschylus
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. ~ William Benton Clulow
Error is ever talkative.~ Oliver Goldsmith
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? ~ Beryl Markham
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ~ Sydney Smith
The noblest spirits are most sensible of the possibility of Error: and the weakest do most hardly lay down an Error. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ~ Anais Nin
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them. ~ Thomas Jefferson
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ~ Sir Hugh Walpole
Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.~ James Sheridan Knowles
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. ~ Doug Larson
Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. ~ Paul Brown
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ~ Jean Rostand
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. ~ Lewis Thomas
An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~ Orlando A. Battista
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
To err is human, but it feels divine. ~ Mae West
If you don’t have a margin for error, error kills you. ~ S. M. Stirling
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ~ Thomas Hobbes
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
We are never so liable to fall into an error, as when we have just escaped from one. ~ Norman Macdonald
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. ~ John Locke
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.~ Caroline Leigh Gascoigne
Every error is truth abused. ~ Jacques Benigue Bossuet
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~ Carl Jung
Error is worse than ignorance. ~ Philip James Bailey
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. ~ John Locke
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts. ~ Nikki Giovanni
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken — errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
The cautious seldom err. ~ Confucius
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process… ~ Dr. Jonas Salk
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. ~ Charles Darwin
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. ~ Louis Aragon
