Errors Quotations | Page 2

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.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

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.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

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.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

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

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.

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

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

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

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

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

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

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

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

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

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

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

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

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

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.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

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

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

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.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

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

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

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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

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

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

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

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

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.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

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

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

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

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

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

No one who lives in error is free.

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

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

One thing is that they walked 12, hit three batters and had two errors in the field. There's 17 free base runners. But we did hit the ball well - a lot better than we have been.