Errors Quotes

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Actually everyting is right, even the errors.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.