Quotes about err
errors mind library
Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
errors confusion decay
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. John C. Calhoun
errors events actuality
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. John Cage
errors confession made
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa. Mahatma Gandhi
errors sound movement
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported. James Monroe
errors government federalism
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other. James Madison
errors grace religion
If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before." Norman Vincent Peale
errors mind freedom-of-speech
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them. Henry Steele Commager
errors mind needs
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
errors sorrow looks
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
errors produce latter
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Henri Poincare
errors mathematics mathematical
How is error possible in mathematics?
errands should proof
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, Henry Ward Beecher
errors depth doe
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.
errors oneself
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
errors risk survival
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error. Kevin Allen
errors catholic church
Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error. Norman Geisler
errors views opposites
As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair. Os Guinness
errors giving principles
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. Olympia Brown
errors long baking
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history Michel Foucault
errors ifs repeats
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
errors long untouchability
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
errors progress exploration
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Jacob Bronowski
errors enough subtle
Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
errors ascent judgment
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
errors mirrors soul
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. George Bancroft
errors hits key needed
The errors we made were uncharacteristic of us. What if this, what if that. We needed some key hits here and there, and we didn't get them.
errors hurt job
The errors really hurt us. We never really got anything going. We didn't get the job done today.
errors occur transfer
The errors often occur in the transfer of information.
errors happy
The errors didn't make me happy at all. We have to get better.
errors veils way
[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.
errors saint
No great saint lived without errors. Martin Luther
errors special doctrine
This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.