Errors Quotes

The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth.

Christopher Peter Grey

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it

Samuel Johnson

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution

Thomas Jefferson

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views

Abraham Lincoln

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

George Bernard Shaw

adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce