Quotes about error
errors confusion desire
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. Sarah Fielding
errors firsts facts
In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected. Samuel Johnson
errors inability care
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
errors criticism may
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
errors stories way
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. Richard Russo
errors justice world
Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. Ugo Betti
errors judgment has-beens
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. Ulysses S. Grant
errors blood world
History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error. Umberto Eco
errors trying imbalance
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. Rodrigo Rato
errors age prejudice
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
errors problem mankind
One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors. Ronald Reagan
errors heaven trying
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. Robert Southwell
errors design casts
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design. William Blake
errors progress trials
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors. Virginia Postrel
errors
You correct an error by bringing truth to it. Wayne Dyer
errors no-excuses excuse
No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening. Troy Aikman
errors people trying
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them. Stefan Zweig
errors reason said
We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. Thomas B. Macaulay
errors politics weapons
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Thomas Jefferson
errors enemy enquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
errors politics truth-is
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
errors childhood inmates
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably. Thomas Bernhard
errors balls responsible
If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball. Pedro Martinez
errors soul body
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body. Plato
errors profound everyday
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table. Ralph Waldo Emerson
errors comedy
Being a family in general is a comedy of errors. Shannon Woodward
errors gains advantage
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living. Larry Ellison
errors devil prejudice
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. Tryon Edwards
errors giving credit
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell
errors evil common
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved. Sophocles
errors intention commit
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention. Stand Watie
errors democrat unified
Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error. Tony Blair
errors answers problem
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. Tim Powers