Quotes about error
errors innovation gross
Pure innovation is more gross than error. George Chapman
errors imagination facts
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. Frances Wright
errors shining soul
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. Fran Lebowitz
errors guilty crime
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it. George Washington
errors life-without-music music-is
A life without music is an error. Friedrich Nietzsche
errors matter belief
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
errors causes dangerous
There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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 humanity debt
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. Thomas Jefferson
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 creation
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God. Thomas Aquinas
errors evil long
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.
errors truth-is customs
Custom without truth is error grown old. Tertullian
errors cucumbers discworld
Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot. Terry Pratchett
errors perspective sometimes
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Simone Weil
errors progress
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth Swami Vivekananda
errors debt littles
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain. Thomas Malthus
errors tree giants
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. Thomas Merton
errors people revolution
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
errors enquiry inquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
errors may definitions
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. Richard P. Feynman
errors imagination incompetence
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. Richard Hofstadter
errors opinion humans
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Voltaire
errors earth shapes
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. William C. Bryant
errors understanding mastery
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. Walter Savage Landor
errors literature common
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. Walter Gilbert
errors ninety percent
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. Yogi Berra
errors virtue avoided
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Winston Churchill
errors marketing vagueness
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise. William Zinsser