Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Pasteur

No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.

Louis Pasteur

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

Maria Montessori

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

The faster the memory goes, the less room there is for error in a system like the Xbox 360.

Pete Williams

I'm not suggesting there are any errors at all. I'm saying that without a proper audit, there's no way to be sure.

I'm glad we pulled this one out. We were 48-of-60 serving, which was uncharacteristic of our team. We're not quite in sync right now. We're making a lot of errors on the floor. But I'm happy we got the victory.

Roger Williams

I'm going to err on the side of right.

This was a very tough match for me. I made too many errors and I didn't play consistently, but fortunately, I won the match.

It was human error made by the animal-care staff person.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Leonardo da Vinci

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

Lev Grossman

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Neal A. Maxwell

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

R. A. Torrey

Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Nelson Mandela

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

Oliver Goldsmith

Error is ever talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Pablo Picasso

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Michael Crichton

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

Mary Baker Eddy

You conquer error by denying its verity.

Mary Baker Eddy

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

Mary Baker Eddy

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

Mary Baker Eddy

Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.

Martin Gore

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Marshall Field

To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.