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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

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.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

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

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds_x000D__x000D_Admit impediments. Love is not love_x000D__x000D_Which alters when it alteration finds,_x000D__x000D_Or bends with the remover to remove:_x000D__x000D_O no! it is an ever-fixed mark_x000D__x000D_That looks on tempests and is never shaken;_x000D__x000D_It is the star to every wandering bark,_x000D__x000D_Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken._x000D__x000D_Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks_x000D__x000D_Within his bending sickle's compass come:_x000D__x000D_Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,_x000D__x000D_But bears it out even to the edge of doom._x000D__x000D_If this be error and upon me proved,_x000D__x000D_I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

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.

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.