(1240 quotes found)
“How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.”
Olympia Brown
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”
Dale E. Turner
“All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.”
Isaac Asimov
“Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape”
George Bancroft
“Error is discipline through which we advance.”
William Ellery Channing
“Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them”
Thomas Jefferson
“Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow