Quotes about error
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 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 support examination
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. James Hutton
errors suffering cautiousness
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. Luc de Clapiers
errors despair
Despair is the greatest of our errors.
errors kingdoms obscurity
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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.
error everybody game job margin playoff small
The margin of error is small in a playoff game. Everybody has to play well. And every once in a while, one game comes down to one play. You never know when it is, or what play has to be made, but you have to try to do your job when it comes to that. Adam Vinatieri
error margin
The margin of error for them is minute.
error global industry issue margin petroleum security spend
The margin for error on this issue is practically nonexistent. You can never spend enough on security for the petroleum industry in Saudi Arabia. One error will have global repercussions.
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 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 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 want about-yourself
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. Jimmy Wales
errors metaphor accepted
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow. Lionel Trilling
errors religion morality
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. Linus Pauling
errors golden twenties
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
errors compounds models
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model. Leon Battista Alberti
errors looks mouths
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. Leo Buscaglia
errors hypothesis rationality
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves. Karl Popper
errors common neglect
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. John Locke
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.
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 judgment standards
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. Lord Acton