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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.

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.

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

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.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep – as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

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.

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

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

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.