Quotes about err
errors may definitions
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. Richard P. Feynman
errors imagination incompetence
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. Richard Hofstadter
errors opinion humans
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Voltaire
errors earth shapes
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. William C. Bryant
errors understanding mastery
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. Walter Savage Landor
errors literature common
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. Walter Gilbert
errors ninety percent
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. Yogi Berra
errors virtue avoided
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Winston Churchill
errors marketing vagueness
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise. William Zinsser
errors atheism ornaments
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? William Shakespeare
errors judgment humans
If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human. William Mulholland
errors superstitions lace
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. William F. Buckley, Jr.
errors humans devilish
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. Saint Augustine
errors anxiety needs
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena. Will Self
errors world dread
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. William Hazlitt
errors long stupidity
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! Wendell Berry
errors gentleman half
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is William Osler
errors preparation done
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. Zebulon Pike