Quotes about errors
errors stories way
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. Richard Russo
errors justice world
Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. Ugo Betti
errors judgment has-beens
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. Ulysses S. Grant
errors blood world
History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error. Umberto Eco
errors trying imbalance
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. Rodrigo Rato
errors mind weak
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes
errors owing matter
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.
errors nations
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, Thomas Paine
errors consistency vices
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
errors sound helping
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. Thomas Huxley
errors perfection evolution
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
errors enemy reform
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Thomas Browne
errors groveling
We do not find truth groveling through error. Thomas S. Monson
errors sin human-nature
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? Thomas Sowell
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 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 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 trials trial-and-error
signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us. Paulo Coelho
errors enemy way
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy. Primo Levi
errors black comedy
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. Tom Stoppard
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 age prejudice
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. Samuel Johnson
errors problem mankind
One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors. Ronald Reagan
errors heaven trying
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. Robert Southwell
errors confusion desire
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. Sarah Fielding
errors firsts facts
In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.