Quotes about error
errors economic produce
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume. Louis D. Brandeis
errors honest
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. Lord Chesterfield
errors evil soul
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit. Maimonides
errors long study
After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. Mahatma Gandhi
errors roger today
Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints. Gael Monfils
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 stones answers
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Paul Tillich
errors genius
Genius is the error in the system. Paul Klee
errors victory obstacles
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. Gustav Stresemann
errors pearls straws
He who would search for pearls must dive below. John Dryden
errors parent world
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid. Louis Pasteur
errors long principles
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
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 evolution speak
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it. Jonas Salk
errors evil triumph
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
errors life-is process
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
errors literature monkeys
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it. Rebecca West
errors mad ifs
If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in? Troy Glaus
errors interesting shows
Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed. Paul Vixie
errors ignorant wonder
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons Pietro Metastasio
errors trials trial-and-error
signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us. Paulo Coelho
errors enemy way
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy. Primo Levi
errors people disrespect
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error. Pope Gregory VII
errors mind weak
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes
errors owing matter
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.
errors nations
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, Thomas Paine
errors consistency vices
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
errors sound helping
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. Thomas Huxley
errors perfection evolution
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
errors enemy reform
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Thomas Browne
errors groveling
We do not find truth groveling through error. Thomas S. Monson
errors sin human-nature
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? Thomas Sowell