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From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of ''Munich'' may exceed the original error of 1938.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
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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.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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