Quotes about error
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
errors one-day eternity
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
errors fool persevere
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
errors facts perceive
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. Leonardo da Vinci
errors criticism ifs
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.
errors should bureaucracy
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. Lev Grossman
errors personality genius
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. Pablo Picasso
errors humanity balance
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux. Isak Dinesen
errors soul body
The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation. Gregory Maguire
errors laughing miracle
I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me? Seth Grahame-Smith
errors sometimes intellect
It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error. Rajneesh
errors people deception
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. Socrates
errors agreement dissent
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen. Michael Servetus
errors may mercy
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
errors sides groups
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. Michael Shermer
errors history accumulation
History is an accumulation of error. Norman Cousins
errors accomplishment meditation
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson
errors information robust
For the robust, an error is information. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
errors made plenty
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
errors government benefits
You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.
errors degradation world
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error. John Ruskin
errors feelings friendly
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. Maria Montessori
errors soul body
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body. Plato
errors grace abuse
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark. Philip Roth
errors progress generations
Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors. Max Planck
errors scripture watches
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture. Matthew Henry
errors perfection collections
Perfection is a polished collection of errors. Mario Benedetti
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 effort daring-to-be-great
There is no effort without error or shortcoming. Theodore Roosevelt
errors littles stuff
As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable. Melissa Marr
errors
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors. Miles Davis
errors triumph force
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth. Marcel Proust
errors support examination
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. James Hutton