Bill Johnson Quotes

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

We regret mistakes were made.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don't say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.