(1212 quotes found)
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“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
“A man's errors are what make him amiable”
“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
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.”
Voltaire
“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
“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.”
Dale E. Turner
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”
Jim Rohn
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
Aldous Huxley