Errors Quotes

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

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.

One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

Delay is preferable to error.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

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

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.