Quotes about err
error room
Everything had to be done perfectly. There is no room for any error at all. Otherwise, it's not going to happen.
errors society different
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. Horace
errors long sorrow
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. Henry David Thoreau
errors politics agitation
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. James A. Garfield
errors suits problem
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Jacqueline Carey
errors people sometimes
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors. Jim Clyburn
errors servant-leadership obsessed
If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors. Jeff Bezos
errors doubt truth-is
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. Georges Duhamel
errors guilt death-penalty
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. George Ryan
errors truth-is all-things
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. Jean-Luc Godard
errors doe made
That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error. Jerry Pournelle
errors principles mankind
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. Jasper Fforde
errors training stones
Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone. Erwin Rommel
errors may biographies
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. Graham Greene
errors done way
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. Gil Amelio
errors effort desire
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. Howard Aiken
errors busy busy-life
Error is always more busy than truth. Hosea Ballou
errors different different-directions
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
errors sound would-be
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. Friedrich Nietzsche
errors kind life-is
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
errors allegiance interest
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer. Galileo Galilei
errors people doe
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. Erich Fromm
errors upset facts
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
errors wire acting
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. Christine Baranski
errors support bases
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.
errors insecurity ready
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors. George Soros
errors rooms complexes
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
errors people stubborn
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. Ferdinand Mount
errors consciousness realizing
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought. Fernando Pessoa
errors giving judging
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. Felix Frankfurter
errors important lasts
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. Farley Mowat
errors literature essentials
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. Ezra Pound
errors confusion experience
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. Francis Bacon