Clear the Air

“Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.”
--Arthur Guiterman

Assumed Error

“One of the most common vulnerabilities exploited is the natural human tendency to assume a discrepancy is the result of an error rather than a product of a deliberate act.”
--Sidney McNeil Gutierrez

Possession of the Truth

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”
--John Locke

Reason and Inquiry

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Thristed Truth

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
--Gustave Le Bon

Worth Your Salt

“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”
--Andrew Jackson

Truth and Error

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
--Carl Gustav Jung

Uncorrected Error

“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
--Orlando Aloysius Battista

Twice Mistaken

“Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.”
--Robert Half

Immortal by Error

“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”
--John Kenneth Galbraith

Errors v. Crimes

“The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.”
--Lady Marguerite Blessington