Quotes about errors
errors busy busy-life
Error is always more busy than truth. Hosea Ballou
errors different different-directions
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. Horace
errors sound would-be
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. Friedrich Nietzsche
errors kind life-is
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
errors allegiance interest
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer. Galileo Galilei
errors people doe
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. Erich Fromm
errors upset facts
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
errors wire acting
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. Christine Baranski
errors support bases
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.
errors insecurity ready
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors. George Soros
errors rooms complexes
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
errors people stubborn
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. Ferdinand Mount
errors consciousness realizing
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought. Fernando Pessoa
errors giving judging
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. Felix Frankfurter
errors important lasts
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. Farley Mowat
errors literature essentials
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. Ezra Pound
errors confusion experience
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. Francis Bacon
errors may opinion
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue. Frances Wright
errors nervous
It was nervous time. Two errors in the ninth, I know we're all right because Cordero is on the mound. Frank Robinson
errors feelings would-be
I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more. Ernest Lawrence
errors form humans
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable. George Eliot
errors feelings illusion
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
errors judgment kinds last
It's unfortunate it's Matt. But those kinds of errors in judgment ... we're not last year's team. We're not going to be last year's team. Clint Hurdle
errors few hurt played start tough
It's a tough way to start the season. We played well but a few errors hurt us.
errors understanding world
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. Errol Morris
errors people religion
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Ernest Renan
errors historical essentials
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
errors principles persistent
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. Frank Herbert
errors assumption arise
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
errors political growth
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated Haile Selassie
errors heaven harry-dresden
I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven. Jim Butcher
errors perfect taught
I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught. Joseph Smith, Jr.
errors literature haste
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. Moliere