A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

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

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.