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If (Bush administration officials) were referring to Niger when they were referring to uranium sales from Africa to Iraq ... that information was erroneous and ... they knew about it well ahead of both the publication of the British white paper and the president`s State of the Union address, ... Meet the Press.

- Joseph Wilson

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

- Stephen Jay Gould

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

- Alexandra Starr

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

- Allayne Barrilleaux

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

- Allyson Donnelly

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

- W. Somerset Maugham

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous

- Frederick Pollock