A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
错误
Error
It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
认为因为你喜欢某人的作品，你就会喜欢他，这是一个很大的错误。
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
真诚并不总是真实的;相反，错误往往比真理更为严重。
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
让一个人知道他犯了错误是一回事，让他掌握真理是另一回事。
It is an error to associate honesty with simplicity. It is far simpler to be a thief than an honest man.
把诚实与单纯联系在一起是错误的。做贼比做老实人简单得多。
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
人们对自己在自然界中的地位有着极其错误的看法;这个错误是无法消除的。
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
一个人犯的错误有四分之三是因为他并不真正知道他自以为知道的东西。
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
十有八九，在艺术和生活中，确实有无真相有待发现;只有错误才会暴露出来。
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
你必须找到适合自己的方法，所以这是一个反复试验的过程。如果你为自己接受现实的目标，一切都会好起来的。
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
一个人永远不应该羞于承认自己犯了错误，这只是在说，换句话说，他今天比昨天更聪明。
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
错误毕竟是真理的基础，如果一个人不知道一件事是什么，那么如果他知道它不是什么，那么他至少增加了知识。
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
如果有任何错误是不可原谅的，那就是电话号码不正确。复制编辑的一个基本规则是，发布的每个电话号码都必须经过检查。
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
任何称职的人都会坚持他认为正确的事情，但只有稍微好一点的人才会立即毫无保留地承认自己错了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
错误是生活的事实。重要的是对错误的响应。
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth,which it contains.
一个错误所包含的真理的程度越高，它就越危险。
Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.
开始时误差一英寸，结束时误差一千英里。
You can create impression on yourself by being yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there’s nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
他意识到，你可以通过做正确的自己来给自己留下印象，但要给别人留下好印象，没有什么比完全错误和灾难性错误更糟糕的了。
I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
我犯了一个致命的错误，以为他能救我。
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
幻觉是事实，而不是错误;错误的是基于它的判断。