In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.
He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
Every error is truth abused.
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.