Quotes about errors
errors inability care
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. Samuel Johnson
errors criticism may
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
errors opinion humans
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Voltaire
errors earth shapes
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. William C. Bryant
errors understanding mastery
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. Walter Savage Landor
errors literature common
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. Walter Gilbert
errors ninety percent
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. Yogi Berra
errors virtue avoided
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Winston Churchill
errors marketing vagueness
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise. William Zinsser
errors anxiety needs
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena. Will Self
errors world dread
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. William Hazlitt
errors long stupidity
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! Wendell Berry
errors design casts
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design. William Blake
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 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 age prejudice
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
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 democrat unified
Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error. Tony Blair
errors perspective sometimes
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Simone Weil
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
errors tree giants
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. Thomas Merton
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 progress
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth Swami Vivekananda