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 | "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "A man"s errors are his portals of discovery." | |
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James Joyce
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| "Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them." | |
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Andrew V. Mason
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| "All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by
passion or interest, under temptation to it." | |
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John Locke
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| "An error doesn?t become a mistake until you refuse to correct
it." | |
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Orlando A. Battista
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| "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth
which it contains." | |
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Proverb
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| "An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains." | |
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
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| "Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a
man." | |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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| "As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of
relief, that can rise to delight, that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting
in this fashion on us." | |
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John Boynton Priestley
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| "DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better
error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data
at all." | |
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Charles Babbage
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| "Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for
pearls must dive below...." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can
be recalled and perhaps remedied." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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| "Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with
its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself." | |
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Vilfredo Pareto
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| "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned
errors." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can
stand by itself." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why
you did it wrong." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Love truth, but pardon error." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the
hour which has gone by return." | |
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Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid
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| "Sometime we may learn more from a man"s errors than from his
virtues." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." | |
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Edward John Phelps
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| "The person who makes no mistakes usually does not make
anything." | |
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Unknown
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| "The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error
is identical with the discovery of the truth ? that error and truth are
simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to,
when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and
maybe one worse than the first." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among
the ablest men." | |
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John Dalberg, Lord Acton
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| "To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent." | |
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Berton Averre
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| "To err is human, but the when the eraser wears out ahead of the
pencil, you?re overdoing it." | |
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J. Jenkins
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| "To err is human; to admit it, superhuman." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "To err is natural; to rectify error is glory." | |
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George Washington
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| "Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is
immense." | |
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Henry St. John Bolingbroke
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| "We must become acquainted with our emotional household; we must see
our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks
their hypnotic and damaging hold on us." | |
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Vernon Howard
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| "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not
have both." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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