Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

A vida e curta demais para cometer o mesmo erro duas vezes.

Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the lines which are drawn from the center of a circle to its circumference are unequal, he surely...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds,...

When I was a kid, they had a saying, ‘to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’

It’s been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put...

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any...

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

No existe ciencia acabada, la ciencia vive superando errores y no estableciendo verdades.

Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

Între eroare și prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire și chiar o complicitate secretă pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înlăture.

Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying but in the...

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

I am right, but I may be wrong”. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely...

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An’ foolish notion.

People often ask, “What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?” A flip answer would be, “The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most...

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.(Young India 1924-1926)

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,With too...

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.

Most people, if they know they have done wrong, foolishly suppose they can conceal their error by defending it, and finding a justification for it; but in my belief there is only one medicine for...

Error is always more busy than truth.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting truth, but to set a limit on everlasting error.

I’m trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it’s been a process of trial and error.

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear;...

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody’s attention will turn elsewhere.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth...

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.