A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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.

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

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

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

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

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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

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

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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.

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

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

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

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

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making 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.

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

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.