Quotes about errors
errors politics truth-is
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. Thomas Jefferson
errors childhood inmates
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably. Thomas Bernhard
errors balls responsible
If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball. Pedro Martinez
errors soul body
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body. Plato
errors profound everyday
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table. Ralph Waldo Emerson
errors comedy
Being a family in general is a comedy of errors. Shannon Woodward
errors gains advantage
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living. Larry Ellison
errors devil prejudice
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. Tryon Edwards
errors giving credit
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell
errors evil common
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved. Sophocles
errors intention commit
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention. Stand Watie
errors democrat unified
Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error. Tony Blair
errors answers problem
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. Tim Powers
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