Errors Quotes

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

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.

Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

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.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Truth is error burned up.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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

You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

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

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.