Every error has its excuse…

By Nabil Medawar | Published: November 25, 2008
  • A one-inch error at the start can be a thousand miles at the end. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before. ~ Arthur Guiterman
  • An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~ Orlando A. Battista
  • An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. ~ Caroline L. Gascoigne
  • An old error has more friends than a new truth. ~ Danish Proverb
  • An old error is always more popular than a new truth. ~ German Proverb
  • Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
  • Error is discipline through which we advance. ~ William Ellery Channing
  • Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ~ Jim Rohn
  • Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. ~ Paul Brown
  • From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ~ Sigmund Freud
  • Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
  • Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
  • I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ~ Anais Nin
  • In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ~ Sir Hugh Walpole
  • It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ Thomas Paine
  • It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. ~ St. Augustine
  • It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
  • Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. ~ Francis Picabia
  • Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~ Carl Jung
  • Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process… ~ Dr. Jonas Salk
  • Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. ~ William law
  • Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts. ~ Nikki Giovanni
  • No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ~ Thomas Hobbes
  • No one who lives in error is free. ~ Euripides
  • Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. ~ Goethe
  • One moment’s error becomes a lifetime of sadness. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something. ~ Author Unknown
  • There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. ~ Louis Aragon
  • There is no original truth, only original error. ~ Gaston Bachelard
  • There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ~ Samuel Butler
  • To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. ~ Francis Bacon
  • Truth is immortal; error is mortal. ~ Mary Baker Eddy
  • We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. ~ Lewis Thomas
  • Where there is much freedom there is much error. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
  • Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? ~ Beryl Markham
  • Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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