Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Steele Commager

The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.

Jorge Valdano

I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better

Jorge Luis Borges

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Jorge Luis Borges

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

Kevin Allen

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

Louis D. Brandeis

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.

Lord Chesterfield

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

Maimonides

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Gael Monfils

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.

Norman Geisler

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

Os Guinness

As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.

Olympia Brown

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

Henri Poincare

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Henri Poincare

How is error possible in mathematics?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One errs as long as one strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Lindsay Davenport

So even though I didn't play a great game at 2-3 in the second and put a few errors in and got broken, I was able to come back right away and finish off with four really solid games.

Ayn Rand

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ayn Rand

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

Benjamin Cardozo

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Edgar Allan Poe

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

Our errors really killed us. We weren't really hitting at all.

Jonathan Miller

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

George Eliot

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.