Quotes with error

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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Francis Picabia Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Nikki Giovanni Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Euripides No one who lives in error is free.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Vauvenargues Obscurity is the realm of error.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Camille Pissarro Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Horace One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Florence King People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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