Pastoral Resources

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

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

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

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

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.