To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. […] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow.’ His name is ‘Today.’

I’ve felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you’re dealing in the negativity of things. I don’t like that. I’d rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

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

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

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

If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

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

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn’t there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

He who thinks little errs much.