Error Quotes

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.