Error Quotes

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to 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.

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.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

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.

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

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

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

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

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

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.