He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: ignorance error choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: memory error immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole. —Lauren Oliver in Before I Fall More about this quote Tags: perception error Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. —Walter Bagehot More about this quote Tags: error will agreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: truth learning error Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. —Thomas H. Huxley More about this quote Tags: truth error irrationality reason rationality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are none of us infallible — not even the youngest of us. —W.H. Thompson More about this quote Tags: knowledge error age fallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. —Arthur Conan Doyle More about this quote Tags: mistakes knowledge error facts guessing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. —William Law More about this quote Tags: love error Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. —Donald Foster More about this quote Tags: mistakes knowledge error discover Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All sweeping assertions are erroneous. —Letitia Elizabeth Landon More about this quote Tags: error wrong generalizations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. —Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington More about this quote Tags: error crime wealth vice class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never make predictions, especially about the future. —Casey Stengel More about this quote Tags: future error caution predictions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge error self paradox Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: fear accomplishment error work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email