Error Acknowledgement Quotes

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

We are openly recognizing our mistakes, but we have to go further. The principle of freedom of conscience must be enshrined in a law that will operate permanently, not simply in those cases when it is convenient to someone or other.

I cite my vouchers to every passage and I have done my utmost, first to find out the truth, and then to relate it in the clearest order. I have laboured after accuracy; and yet I dare not say that I am without mistake; nor do I desire the reader to conceal any he may possibly find.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

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