Quotes about error
errors mediocrity might
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error. John Locke
errors causes common
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good. John Lancaster Spalding
errors experience form
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
errors optimism stupidity
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. John Kenneth Galbraith
errors choices rivals
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
errors doorways sticks
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. Josh Billings
errors humanity humans
To be human is erroneous. Karl Kraus
errors genius
Genius is the error in the system. Paul Klee
errors special doctrine
This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist. Martin Luther
errors failing spontaneous
Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. Nancy Friday
errors trying forget
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. Paul Nitze
errors age doe
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. P. T. Barnum
errors conquer
You conquer error by denying its verity. Mary Baker Eddy
errors sin sickness
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.
errors truth-is immortal
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
errors hopeful age
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.
errors safe armor
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.
errors mind trials
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 Gore
errors surface seeming
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. Martin Farquhar Tupper
errors perfection done
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. Marshall Field
errors want victim
I want to be the victim of his errors. Marquis de Sade
errors self-love african-american
I am so hip even my errors are correct Nikki Giovanni
errors plans wrong-things
Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about. Neal A. Maxwell
errors stories amusement
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. Michael Crichton
errors suspense division
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions? Michel de Montaigne
errors trying trial-and-error
All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories. Michael Schur
errors firm
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth. Mark Twain
errors religion firsts
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. A. Torrey
errors progressive truth-is
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. R. Buckminster Fuller
errors progressive truth-is
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
errors leader criticism
It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism Nelson Mandela
errors talkative
Error is ever talkative. Oliver Goldsmith
errors soul needs
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