Quotes on Errors

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.