A Quote by Georges Canguilhem

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

Georges Canguilhem

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Georges Canguilhem
French - Philosopher
June 4, 1904 - September 11, 1995

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

Glover Teixeira

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Benjamin Franklin

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Agatha Christie

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

Seneca the Younger

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

Saint Augustine

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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 nature, to rectify error is glory.

George Washington

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

Confucius

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

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