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An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ↗

— Michael Servetus

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The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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