Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had a pretty good game. We didn't hit but errors killed us. The players are still learning.

Norman Geisler

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.

Rove McManus

There is marginal room for error and you are working in front of a large crowd. Getting back on stage is something that I have really enjoyed.

William Shakespeare

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

We are our own worse enemy. If you take away one fourth of our errors we could win this match.

Gerrit Smith

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Adrian Rogers

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Adam Smith

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

Ada Lovelace

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

Albert Einstein

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Alfred North Whitehead

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Alfred North Whitehead

Error itself may be happy chance.

Albert Einstein

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

We were a little stiff. We made some errors and couldn't seem to get runners on base.

Adrian Rogers

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

Jane Austen

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Bruce Pearl

I am very disappointed, but Kentucky played a terrific second half. We must focus on playing better. Every night we have had intense games, and there is no margin of error for this team.

Clint Hurdle

Numbers speaking, he made one error the whole time he was at shortstop, which speaks volumes. He handled himself remarkably well. He showed major-league poise.

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Bob Hartley

Obviously, this is a tough loss. Our margin for error is real small and we're going to have to run the table.

Lord Chesterfield

If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people

Tatiana Maslany

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

I don't know exactly how many errors we made, but it was way too many.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Edmund Burke

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Edmund Burke

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

We shot poorly because we executed poorly. At times we picked up our play, but our margin of error is too thin to play like that.