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Error Quotes & Sayings

These famous error quotes and error sayings from our inspirational words of wisdom collection.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. - Isaac Asimov


Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. - Philip K. Dick


Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative. - Oliver Goldsmith


It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. - Pablo Picasso


Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. - Hannah Arendt


Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. - John Keats


There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. - Louis Aragon


Disabuse: The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce


Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course. - Edward J. Koch

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