Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people

Mark Romanek

I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

Robert Hall

Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error

If those players were still here performing and producing, I wouldn't be here. But those errors were made, and that's a situation we have to get fixed.

The packaging error was detected during a store inspection process.

We made too many errors tonight and we can't keep playing sloppy and win, especially when we get to the region games. On the positive side, we scored in every inning but one.

We made too many errors and did not have the sticks to back ourselves up.

We made some mental errors tonight that we need to get rid of. We are just real happy right now to be 5-0.

We made some mental errors and they capitalized. It took us a while to get our composure, and we were playing catch-up.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)

He made a terrible error in judgment. The program is very clear, and we're proud of it in the NFL. You're responsible for what's in your body,

Richard Dyer

We try to error on the side of safety, but sometimes those judgments are not accurate,

We just have to hit smarter shots. We're hitting out too much, not challenging the block. We're making too many errors on our side of the net.

We're playing them 1-1, and we've out-hit them 4-3, and then we give up six errors. The walks are always going to come back and haunt you, but we just kept making error after error.

Blaise Pascal

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.

Blaise Pascal

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

We had been giving erroneous numbers for research expenditures for many, many years. My position was, fix it all right now. Do it all at one time.

Ayrton Senna

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Ayn Rand

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

Ayn Rand

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ayn Rand

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

Benjamin Cardozo

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Clint Hurdle

Numbers speaking, he made one error the whole time he was at shortstop, which speaks volumes. He handled himself remarkably well. He showed major-league poise.

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Bob Hartley

Obviously, this is a tough loss. Our margin for error is real small and we're going to have to run the table.

Dick Taylor

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.

Aaron Burr

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

When you come out and play that well early, it reduces your margin of error a little bit.

The pitching was really good for the most part. South Alabama's (junior) pitcher P.J. Walters was great for them. Friday night's game was more of a pitchers' duel. Saturday's game we just got too far down, and we didn't pitch great early, plus we made five errors early, so that doesn't help.