(1240 quotes found)
“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”
James Allen
“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all”
Tryon Edwards
“Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views”
Abraham Lincoln
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors”
Thomas Jefferson
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below”
John Dryden
“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
Tom Krause