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Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error…

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them.

Maxwell Perkins

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Michel de Montaigne

… the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

George Eliot

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

Jacob Bronowski

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

George Saintsbury

The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

James Fenton

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

James Sheridan Knowles

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

Albert Einstein

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

You can’t rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

Alison Jackson

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.

Daniel Gilbert

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

Daniel Webster

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

David Hume

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

Larry Hite

It’s one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

John F. Kerry

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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