Definition of error

"error" in the noun sense

1. mistake, error, fault

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

"he made a bad mistake"

"she was quick to point out my errors"

"I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"

2. erroneousness, error

inadvertent incorrectness

3. error, erroneous belief

a misconception resulting from incorrect information

4. error, misplay

baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

5. error, wrongdoing

departure from what is ethically acceptable

6. error, computer error

computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

7. error, mistake

part of a statement that is not correct

"the book was full of errors"

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Quotations for error

Error is frail. [ Zoroaster ]

Error is endless. [ Proverb ]

The cautious seldom err. [ Confucius ]

Error is always in haste. [ Proverb ]

Error is always talkative. [ Goldsmith ]

Every error is truth abused. [ Bossuet ]

Error is worse than Ignorance. [ Bailey ]

Shall Error in the round of time
Still father Truth? [ Tennyson ]

Error is ever the sequence of haste. [ Wellington ]

Error is always more busy than truth. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Error is but the shadow of the truth. [ Stillingfleet ]

It is a manly act to forsake an error. [ Proverb ]

The smallest errors are always the best. [ Moliere ]

Dark error's other hidden side is truth. [ Victor Hugo ]

Goodness admits of no excess, but error. [ Bacon ]

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. [ Cowper ]

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err. [ Goethe ]

A man's errors are what make him amiable. [ Goethe ]

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. [ W. C. Bryant ]

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light
We first distinguish, then pursue the right;
Thy power the breast from every error frees,
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. [ Juv ]

Old custom without truth is but an old error. [ Proverb ]

Custom without reason is but an ancient error. [ Proverb ]

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below. [ Dryden ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight.
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. [ Roscommon ]

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. [ Caroline L. Gascoigne ]

If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools. [ George Herbert ]

All extremes are error.
The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
Truth lies between these extremes. [ Cecil ]

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly - but truth survives the flight. [ Bryant ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

Unreasonable haste is often the direct road to error. [ Moliere ]

Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak. [ Mme. de Stael ]

A truth that one does not understand becomes an error. [ Desbarolles ]

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. [ Syrus ]

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. [ Petrarch ]

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. [ Channing ]

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. [ Swift ]

It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. [ Cicero ]

The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err. [ William Shakespeare ]

Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth. [ Proverb ]

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. [ Tupper ]

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative. [ Goldsmith ]

Every one is liable to err; none but a fool will persevere in error. [ Cicero ]

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues. [ Longfellow ]

Error, though blind herself, yet sometimes brings forth seeing children. [ Proverb ]

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. [ Thomas Jefferson ]

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Keith ]

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [ Goethe ]

It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. [ Washington Irving ]

Verily, there is nothing so true that the damps of error hath not warp'd it. [ Tupper ]

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. [ Voltaire ]

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. [ Carlyle ]

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. [ Herbert ]

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. [ George Sand ]

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. [ Knowles ]

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. [ Plutarch ]

Better is an error that makes us happy than a truth that plunges us into despair.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

To guard from error is not the instructor's business; but to lead the erring pupil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection. [ Richter ]

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. [ Amiel ]

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. [ Horace Walpole ]

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. [ Thoreau ]

Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Show a good man his error, and he turns it to a virtue; but an ill, it doubles his fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. [ John Locke ]

One day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. [ Yonge ]

He who is an ass and thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he has to leap a ditch. [ Italian Proverb ]

Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. [ Rückert ]

Love is the sweetest of errors - an error of the heart, of which it is cruel to be disabused.

There is in some minds a nucleus of error which attracts and assimilates everything to itself. [ Voltaire ]

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. [ Glanvill ]

There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in governments while men govern. [ Sir Dudley Carlton ]

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. [ Colton ]

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has but one talent for a genius. [ Arthur Helps ]

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. [ Carlyle ]

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. [ Lindley Murray ]

Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. [ Bishop Mant ]

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. [ Metastasio ]

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. [ Seneca ]

The error of certain women is to imagine that, to acquire distinction, they must imitate the manners of men. [ J. de Maistre ]

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. [ Beaconsfield ]

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are. [ Blair ]

Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. [ Coleridge ]

Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous and culpable in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it. [ Juvenal ]

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. [ Cicero ]

One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways. [ Horace ]

What is a philosopher? One who opposes nature to law, reason to usage, conscience to opinion, and his judgment to error. [ Chamfort ]

To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. [ Robertson ]

Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is a fine observation of Plato, in his Laws, that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding. [ Wm. Fleming ]

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. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainty is very hard to come at; and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

He who thinks he can do without the world deceives himself; but he who thinks that the world can not do without him is still more in error. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. [ Whately ]

You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable. [ Plato ]

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. [ Rev. T. Binney ]

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. [ Landor ]

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. [ Colton ]

It is the great error of reformers and philanthropists in our time to nibble at the consequences of unjust power, instead of redressing the injustice itself. [ J. S. Mill ]

The mathematics are friends to religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity or imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. [ Arbuthnot ]

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. [ Coleridge ]

In misfortune, in error, and when the time appointed for certain affairs is about to elapse, a servant who hath his master's welfare at heart ought to speak unasked. [ Hitopadesa ]

The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

Literature is a mere step to knowledge; and the error often lies in our identifying one with the other. Literature may, perhaps, make us vain; true knowledge must make us humble. [ Mrs. John Sanford ]

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts. [ Newton ]

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

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. [ Tupper ]

Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]

Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Whewell ]

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. [ Madame Swetchine ]

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. Or, as the Chinese better say, The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. [ Bovee ]

Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion. [ Colton ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. [ Ruskin ]

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]

There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. [ Colton ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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