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“No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“All men are liable to error, and most men are in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.” Sophocles, Antigone
“QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.” Sophocles, Antigone
“A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“If you thought before that science was certain—well, that is just an error on your part.” Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
“But science is a self-correcting enterprise. To be accepted, all new ideas must survive rigorous standards of evidence.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.” Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“But when erring reason proposes something as being commanded by God, then to scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“The cautious seldom err.” Confucius, Analects
“I may hope, therefore, that my chance of escaping serious errors is as good as that of anyone else, who might have been persuaded to undertake the somewhat perilous enterprise in which I find myself engaged.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“He who thinks little, errs much.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.” Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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