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 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 design casts
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design. William Blake
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 people trying
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them. Stefan Zweig
errors reason said
We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. Thomas B. Macaulay
errors politics weapons
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Thomas Jefferson
errors enemy enquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
errors politics truth-is
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
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 society different
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. Horace
errors long sorrow
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. Henry David Thoreau
errors politics agitation
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. James A. Garfield
errors suits problem
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Jacqueline Carey
errors people sometimes
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors. Jim Clyburn
errors servant-leadership obsessed
If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors. Jeff Bezos
errors doubt truth-is
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. Georges Duhamel
errors guilt death-penalty
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. George Ryan
errors truth-is all-things
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. Jean-Luc Godard
errors doe made
That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error. Jerry Pournelle
errors principles mankind
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. Jasper Fforde
errors training stones
Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone. Erwin Rommel
errors may biographies
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. Graham Greene
errors done way
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. Gil Amelio
errors effort desire
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. Howard Aiken