Errors Quotes

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

A column about errors will contain errors.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.

From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

there's no defense except all the errors made

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.

There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.