E Quotes
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“Err my friend, but be not defeated and keep on moving.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“Err on the side of generosity. Not because you want something in return. Banking on reciprocity is a recipe for manipulation. Be generous because you’re human and you care.”
“Errabat nudo per loca sola pede.
She was wandering barefoot through lonely places.”
“Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare diabolicum.”
“errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.”
“Erratic work makes us feel unstable, both emotionally and financially. We thrive when we know what is expected of us, when we know which goal post we're trying to hit. Chasing work or sorting out just what it is we are supposed to be doing in a role demands our energy in a way that is frenetic and often seems unsafe, both of which are a recipe for fatigue and burnout.”
Source: Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose – An Essential Handbook for Professionals: From Unfulfillment to Action, Control, and Lasting Success
“Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.”
“Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!”
“Erroh has a plan. A simple plan. It'll never work.”
Source: Spark City
“Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.”
“Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.”
“Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.”
“Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?”
Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“error
brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of
existence”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”
“Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?”
“Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Error has never approached my spirit.”
“Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.”
Source: Canadian Stories
“Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.”
“Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.”
“Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.”
“Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.”
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”
“Error is always more busy than truth.”
“Error is always talkative.”
“Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.”
“Error is but the shadow of the truth.”
“Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”
“Error is created; truth is eternal.”
Source: Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress
“Error is ever talkative.”
Source: The Poetical Works ...: And The Vicar of Wakefield ...
“Error is ever the sequence of haste.”
“Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.”
“Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.”
“Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and psychoanalysis
“Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.”
“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.”
“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.”
Source: The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre
“Error is part of the overhead of doing research”
“Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”
Source: My confession; My religion; The Gospel in brief
“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
“Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.”
“Error is worse than ignorance.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Error itself may be happy chance.”
“Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.”