111 quotes about error follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace Mann

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Seneca

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

This was where the closeness of the competition was really showcased as every small error made the difference as to how you placed.

Phil Summers

DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.

Ambrose Bierce

After taxes, it's probably not even a rounding error.

Wayne Bogosian

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Benjamin Rush

The judge corrected a grave error made by the jury.

Anita Holley

We will not tolerate that type of error. We take it very seriously.

Rachael Sunbarger

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.

Steve Pikiell

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.

Dag Hammarskjold

Week in and week out you have to be on top of your game because there's not a lot of room for error.

London Fletcher

They do 150 million PCs per year — it's like a rounding error.

Al Gillen

Under the current law there was no remedy if you discovered an error.

Jim Evans

Trial and error is what life is about, let alone going into a war zone.

Virginia Boden

With all due respect, we think that (ruling) was error.

Andy Birchfield

Our hats are off to (them). They found a real source of error.

John Christy

It was strictly a bookkeeping error. We do not owe any states any back money.

Nick Iammartino

We basically gave them the two runs, making a key error.

Kris Doorey

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Alvin Toffler

We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.

Dan Ariola

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Nevell Bovee

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Robert H. Jackson

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

My guy beat me to the inside. It was at a time when we had no room for error, and I can't do that.

Sean Locklear

The data . . . was intentionally fabricated, not an accidental error, and this constituted major misconduct.

Roe Jung Hye

We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.

Mary Baker Eddy

There were actually more than 950 different medications recorded in these error reports.

John Santell

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Dr. Linus Pauling

There's a margin of error here.

Russell Klein

Truth burns up error.

Sojourner Truth

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We have to be ready for everything. We have to make it come off smoothly, too. There's no room for error.

Mark Farner

The packaging error was detected during a store inspection process.

Anne Hendricks

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

O. A. Battista

There's very little room for error.

Colin Doyle

We try to error on the side of safety, but sometimes those judgments are not accurate.

Richard Dyer

Cranes do fail because of deficiency on the equipment or operator error.

Luis Santiago

It absolutely could be appeal grounds. The cases we cited say you can't cure it and it's reversible error not to grant a mistrial.

George Lepley

Not just human error was involved, ... There may have been malfeasance.

Raymond Seed

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Heather Mills

This is a great error of judgment and the country will pay for this for decades.

Ajai Sahni

This will not happen again, ... This was an error of judgment. I've learned a lot.

Charles Lyons

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

Walter Gilbert

When you read the qualification criteria, it's very clear. There's really no room for error. (I) should be the winner.

Chris Klug

He probably thinks he was helping somebody. I think he made an error.

David Darlington

Then we started off the sixth with two more walks and an error and they end up scoring two more.

Robert Webb

That's a three run error on the umpire.

Cory Anderson

It was a tough play, so I don't feel like it was an error.

Felix Hernandez

This was a bookkeeping error, and as soon as the campaign learned there was an error, it was corrected.

Ted Delisi

It was human error made by the animal-care staff person.

Christina Simmons

The ZBA then decides whether or not the order was issued in error.

Regina Reid

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Scott Jones

In retrospect, that was a big error in our thinking.

Jeff Berliner

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

George Chapman

Based on these findings, the data in 2005 was intentionally fabricated, not an accidental error.

Roe Jung Hye

Had the consumer had a claim during the mix-up, they would be covered after we found out about the error immediately.

Justin Glover

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Jeremy Taylor

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

I have committed an error. I am 100 percent with the newspaper's line and Carsten Juste in this case.

Flemming Rose

I was really proud of her. She bounced right back after making that error.

Wendy Massey

This is an embarrassing episode. He will have plenty of time to reflect on his error of judgement.

Ben Pearson

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

Arthur Guiterman

It was an unfortunate error on our part. We apologize for everything that occurred.

Robert Ziegler

We had the bases loaded after they had an error. Then the wild pitch scored a run.

Carl Fuller

A line drive, a guy jumps for it, I don't see how you can give that an error.

Corey Koskie

Doing something simple can lead to a lot of work. It's also a very error-prone way to do things.

John Robbins

I'd like to add outside tables. We'll see. It's a lot of trial and error.

Dave Favre

We have no room for mistakes or error here. We have to find a way to get points.

Toby Petersen

The president should be worried. With 55 percent, if there's is a margin of error of 4 percent, he could actually have only 51 percent.

Horacio Serpa

This was the kind of game that eats you up. We were ahead 6-3 and an error made the difference.

Tim Hulsey

The difference is due to a drafting error and will be corrected legislatively before July 1.

Craig Orfield

Folks were doing the very best they knew to do. It was human error.

Kathy Dickson

It was an error in judgment. He was caught up in something bigger than himself.

Jim Winkler

It's been a long time since I've had an error and then committing two in one day is frustrating.

Orlando Hernandez

There was an error on our part in approving and reviewing the ballots.

Mary Cole

The margin of error is only 10 percent, so they are clearly brown dwarfs. It's Physics 101.

Keivan Stassun

We did not order this book. It was shipped to us in error by one of our distributors.

Karen Burk

It saves on having to hand-enter everything and there's less chance of error.

Al Wilkinson

Our concern goes out to Ms. Munoz, but this accident was caused by driver error.

Kathleen Vokes

It was a lot of trial-and-error to get the right combination.

Patty Sorrels

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

Richard Feynman

It was just a human error. It happened and it will happen again.

Michael Hourigan

Brad did a nice job of getting ahead in the count. Our defense was solid. We didn't commit an error ? it was a good effort.

Matt Hahn

A lot of it is trial and error.

Robert Soper

On the candidate side, we get very little error or people calling in with questions.

Jim Fitzpatrick

If you make an error, it's already on the computer and you can correct it. You can also track a document to see where it is. Although I still print some things off to check for errors.

Sheila Allen

ISC remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.

Paul Vixie

The biggest error we make in buying furniture is not looking under the piece.

Jennifer Litwin

We're really playing error-free ball. We're making good decisions.

Fred Trenkle

We are thrilled and amazed that WMMR has made this critical error by extending our contracts.

Steve Morrison

We are outraged that they would consider debarment for a billing error when the same action is being taken against a company that is responsible for $11 billion in fraud.

James Fischer

And boy were we incensed because it's embarrassing to see that. That was a defensive error in coverage and believe me we blasted them for that.

Carl Charles

We hit the ball real well on our way to 15 hits. We also played well defensively with only one error.

Sammy Day

I don't think we had any margin of error, the way these guys were playing.

Manny Lawson

If you get in a rally with him, he'll force you to make an error.

Tom Dundas

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Vilfredo Pareto

I don't think we can change the error that has taken place by changing the zoning.

Jim Wood

It's a monumental trading error, but fortunately this is a large bank with deep reserves.

Jason Rogers

It was human error and that's all we can tell you at this time.

Jill Watson

It was a clerical error in the transcription of numbers.

Eddy Bresnitz