A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

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

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.

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.

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.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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

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.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

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.

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

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

For my part, it was Greek to me.

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

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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

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

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

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

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

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

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.

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.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

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.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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

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

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

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

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

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

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

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.