(1215 quotes found)
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair”
Douglas Adams
“A man's errors are what make him amiable”
“The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life”
Chinese Proverbs
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.”
Voltaire
“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality”
Ayn Rand
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors”
Thomas Jefferson