Errors Quotes

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.