"Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense." - HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE, Reflections upon Exile

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - PEARL S. BUCK, What America Means to Me

"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong." - MICHAEL FRAYN, Sweet Dreams

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it." - JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth." - JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

"To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Anonymous in 'Farmer's Almanac for 1978' 1977

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age." - Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)

"I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) 16 Feb 1934