Top 67 Great Error Quotes
#1. Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible.
Soren Kierkegaard
#2. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
Phineas Quimby
#3. Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#4. The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.
Herbert M. Shelton
#5. Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.
Alexander Hamilton
#6. The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
Edmund Burke
#7. The great error of nearly all studies of war ... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics ...
Simone Weil
#9. There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest ...
Alexander Hamilton
#10. A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.
Charles-Francois Dupuis
#11. I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Camille Pissarro
#13. One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.
Novalis
#14. For this," he said, "is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.
Plato
#15. Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
Jacques Ellul
#16. You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
Plato
#18. We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
Adam Smith
#20. Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#21. The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.
Robert Southwell
#22. Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
Luc De Clapiers
#23. Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest Renan
#24. Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount
#25. Our church had an awkward beginning. We grew out of a movement that was dead wrong about the dates and times of Jesus' return. But out of that great disappointment and gross error grew a people devoted to voraciously studying the Bible and banking on being with Jesus as soon as He would allow.
Nathan Brown
#27. It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#28. Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
Al-Ma'arri
#29. In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
J.G. Holland
#30. I think thus of Satan's pride: it is difficult for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore, how easy it is to fall into error and partake of it, thinking, moreover, that we are doing something great and beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.
Siri Hustvedt
#32. Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided - that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood.
Otto Von Bismarck
#33. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
Samuel Butler
#34. To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know - and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of - a great many truths.
Harry G. Frankfurt
#36. Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe, a small error is essential for enhancing existence. Without error, there is no movement. Death follows.
Jacques Lecoq
#37. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.
Wilhelm Reich
#38. Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.
Stephen Hawking
#40. Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#41. All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without.
Charles F. Haanel
#42. Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.
Seneca.
#43. Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.
Marilynne Robinson
#44. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
#45. The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#46. In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
Rhett McLaughlin
#47. Too great haste leads us to error.
Moliere
#48. The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
Philip Hammond
#49. Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
C.S. Lewis
#50. Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.
Frederick The Great
#51. A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
#52. A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
Arthur Helps
#53. The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
Carl Sagan
#54. It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences some times follow those which appear to be light faults.
John Wesley
#55. Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
George Eliot
#56. It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#57. Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.
Mick Cochrane
#58. I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
Bob Ross
#60. Friendship is usually treated ... as a tough ... thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word ...
Ouida
#61. The two great pillars upon which the kingdom of Satan is erected, and by which it is upheld, are ignorance and error;
Logan West
#62. One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say "I am right, but I may be wrong". Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!
Israelmore Ayivor
#63. An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.
Rachilde
#64. I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#65. Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague
#66. The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
Herodotus
#67. He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways ...
Terry Pratchett
