Quotes about error
errors black comedy
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. Tom Stoppard
errors flesh gorgeous
I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. Sylvia Plath
errors differences hinduism
One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth. Swami Vivekananda
errors tiny imagine
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
errors perfection soul
It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.
errors personality neurosis
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not. Rollo May
errors evil looks
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
errors important littles
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed. Steve Allen
errors silence
There were grammatical errors even in his silence. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
errors atheism born
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
errors entrepreneur connections
Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections Joshua Waitzkin
errors world care
If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that. Ramakrishna
errors
You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible. Les Wexner
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
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. Thomas Jefferson
errors enquiry inquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
errors humanity debt
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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