Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.