Errors Quotes
You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.
Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
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.
There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.
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
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.
I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.