Quotes about errors
errors metaphor accepted
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow. Lionel Trilling
errors religion morality
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. Linus Pauling
errors golden twenties
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
errors compounds models
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model. Leon Battista Alberti
errors looks mouths
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. Leo Buscaglia
errors hypothesis rationality
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves. Karl Popper
errors common neglect
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. John Locke
errors mediocrity might
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.
errors causes common
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good. John Lancaster Spalding
errors experience form
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
errors optimism stupidity
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. John Kenneth Galbraith
errors choices rivals
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
errors judgment standards
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. Lord Acton
errors economic produce
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume. Louis D. Brandeis
errors honest
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. Lord Chesterfield
errors evil soul
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit. Maimonides
errors long study
After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. Mahatma Gandhi
errors roger today
Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints. Gael Monfils
errors doorways sticks
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. Josh Billings
errors humanity humans
To be human is erroneous. Karl Kraus
errors stones answers
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Paul Tillich
errors genius
Genius is the error in the system. Paul Klee
errors victory obstacles
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. Gustav Stresemann
errors pearls straws
He who would search for pearls must dive below. John Dryden
errors parent world
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid. Louis Pasteur
errors long principles
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
errors feelings friendly
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has. Maria Montessori
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 literature monkeys
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it. Rebecca West
errors mad ifs
If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in? Troy Glaus
errors interesting shows
Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed. Paul Vixie