Errors Quotes
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.
I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.
One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.
While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.
Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun.
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
The fans may be surprised to know that during my freshman year at Oglethorpe, I waited on tables and never made an error, never dropped a tray nor broke a dish.
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
