A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is….

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness..

Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to ….

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human..

One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your neck; another, a smaller….

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go..

We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a se….

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis..

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an erro….

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is th….

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own..

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous….

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time..

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is meas….

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake..

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live..

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others..

Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are w….

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infi….

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered..

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability..