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Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

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Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

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signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

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