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• Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

  Christine Baranski

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  Tags in Error, Athlete, Margin, Celebrity

• It is an error to associate honesty with simplicity. It is far simpler to be a thief than an honest man.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

  Jenny Downham

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• If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

  Stand Watie

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• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Alexander Pope

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• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• You can create impression on yourself by being yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there’s nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

  Michael Frayn

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• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

  John Locke

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• The study of error serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Walter Lippmann

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• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth,which it contains.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

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• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it’s an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

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• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  Raymond Aron

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• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Illusions, Error, Judgment

• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

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• Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

  James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

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• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn’t have prosecuted the war. We shouldn’t have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  Ed Balls

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  Tags in Error, Heavy

• My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

  Ayrton Senna

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• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Media, Error, Rapport, Establish

• Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.

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• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  H. L. Mencken

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