The intellect is not all…but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors…wastes time in unprofitable pursuits. – Flint Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Requiem for Methuselah’.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. – Jonathan Dimbleby
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. – Barbra Streisand
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. – Friedrich Nietzsche
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. – Gary Hamel
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. – Frances Wright
Books about spies and traitors – and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors – generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors. – Malcolm Gladwell
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. – Patrick Modiano