Errors Quotes
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.
Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error
A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.
Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.
When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.