Error Quotes

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

There is no original truth, only original error.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

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.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Error is always more busy than truth.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.