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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

No one who lives in error is free.

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.