Error Quotes

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

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

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

To err is human to forgive divine.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.

Success sits on a mountain of mistakes

Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming, "To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116)trans by Robert Thurman

Mistakes aren’t mistakes they are lessons!

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.

No definite sciencewithout trial & error.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope.

Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.

Too often truth is doubted, while the error is believed.

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.