Errors Quotes

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.

Love truth, and pardon error.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Error itself may be happy chance.

We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who was murdered by the state, though innocent.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story.

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.