Error Quotes

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error" "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." "Science can purify religion from error and superstition, religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes" "When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly most mistaken" "You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty." "We are all framed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly that is the first law of nature" "It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident" "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry" "No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he will take no other counsel than his own" "To err is human, to admit it, superhuman." "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "He who thinks greatly must err greatly." "A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. A failure is not an error"