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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Mistakes
Henri Frederic Amiel

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Reason
Louis Aragon

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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
Biography
John Arbuthnot

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There is no original truth, only original error.
Mistakes
Gaston Bachelard

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth
Francis Bacon

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Conscience
George Bancroft

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Mistakes
Orlando A. Battista

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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Humility
Ludwig Van Beethoven

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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Weakness
George Bidault

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Experience
Ambrose Bierce

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Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Airplane and Aviation
Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Truth
George Brandes

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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
Football
Paul Brown

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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Obstinacy
Edmund Burke

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Error is discipline through which we advance.
Mistakes
William Ellery Channing

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Pure innovation is more gross than error.
Innovation
George Chapman

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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Failure
Lord Chesterfield

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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Winston Churchill

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Mistakes
Marcus T. Cicero

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
Fear
Claudius Claudianus

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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Sincerity
Benjamin Disraeli

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A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.
Computers
Sheila M. Eby

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Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Mistakes
Mary Baker Eddy

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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Appearance
George Eliot

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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
Prophecy
George Eliot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun