Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Neal A. Maxwell

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

R. A. Torrey

Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Nelson Mandela

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

Oliver Goldsmith

Error is ever talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Pablo Picasso

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Michael Crichton

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

Mary Baker Eddy

You conquer error by denying its verity.

Mary Baker Eddy

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

Mary Baker Eddy

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

Mary Baker Eddy

Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.

Martin Gore

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Marshall Field

To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marquis de Sade

I want to be the victim of his errors.

Nikki Giovanni

I am so hip even my errors are correct

P. T. Barnum

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

Paul Nitze

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Marshall McLuhan

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

Michel de Montaigne

Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

Michael Schur

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Mark Twain

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Mario Benedetti

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

George Chapman

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Frances Wright

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Fran Lebowitz

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

George Washington

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.