Wayne Dyer Quotes

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.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

When you have made an error of historic proportions, the sooner you change policy, the smaller the price you will pay.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

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

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

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

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

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

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

We regret mistakes were made.

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.