Error Quotes

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

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.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

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

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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

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.

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

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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