Errors Quotes

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Love dies because its birth was an error.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

No great saint lived without errors.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Every error is truth abused.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!