(1240 quotes found)
“The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life”
Chinese Proverbs
“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 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
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“A man's errors are what make him amiable”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
Plutarch
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.”
Voltaire
“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
