Errors Quotes

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

You look wise, pray correct that error.

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

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

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

You don't endorse error, you allow it.

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.

Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

You conquer error by denying its verity.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Pain is not an evolutionary error.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

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

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.