A Quote by George Washington

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

George Washington

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George Washington
American - President
February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

William Shakespeare

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

Galileo Galilei

Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.

Frederic Bastiat

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Georges Canguilhem

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

Seneca the Younger

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

Confucius

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

William Wilberforce

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

John Ruskin

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

Gulzar

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

Michelle Dean

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.