Quotes about errors
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 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 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 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 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 mad ifs
If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in? Troy Glaus
errors progress trials
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors. Virginia Postrel
errors
You correct an error by bringing truth to it. Wayne Dyer
errors no-excuses excuse
No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening. Troy Aikman
errors gentleman half
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is William Osler
errors preparation done
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. Zebulon Pike