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    One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but
    in different directions.
    [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique
    Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right read more

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
[Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that read more

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair

by Douglas Adams Found in: Errors Quotes,
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The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
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The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
And to the false, error and truth alike,
Error is worse than ignorance.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
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Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
What error leads must error.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Errors Quotes,
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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

by Carl Gustav Jung Found in: Errors Quotes,
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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

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

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

by Isaac Newton Found in: Errors Quotes,
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