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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything…. Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love; abortion, which is to unmake the child; and pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: ‘Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.’ … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors.

Love truth, but pardon error.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one’s mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Something of the hermit’s temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

In spite of some bad experiences, I’m a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

the leading error of the human mind, – the bane of human happiness – the perverter of human virtue … is Religion – that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion – that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion – that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion – that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!