A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
American - Author
February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

John Locke

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

Michelle Monaghan

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

John Lennon

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Josiah Royce

Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

James Nesbitt

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

J. G. Holland

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

Mason Cooley

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

Clarence Day

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Roger von Oech

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Pauline Kael

We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.

Lysa TerKeurst

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.

H. L. Mencken

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.

Thomas Jefferson

Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay. No, no, it is that kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up costing you.

Jim Rohn

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Terry Goodkind

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