Quotes about errors
errors political demand
The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science. David Ricardo
errors matter facts
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors. David Hume
errors accountability criticism
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. David Brin
errors effort risk
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place. Blaise Pascal
errors finding five found game second ways win
We're just finding ways to win. One game we'll play real well defensively, and then in that second game (Monday) we made five errors and still found a way to win the game.
errors people feelings
Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business. Jane Austen
errors political single-life
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka. Arthur Koestler
errors generations consequence
Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
errors happens
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet. Ayrton Senna
errors purpose may
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make. Ayn Rand
errors demand moral
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
errors evil waiting
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.
errors growth ingredients
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. Benjamin Cardozo
errors sincerity earnest
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Benjamin Disraeli
errors quality bishops
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
errors trying spirit
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. C. S. Lewis
errors few game hit hurt runs score second struggling
We're just struggling with our hitting. You can give up a few runs if you can hit the ball, but we just can't score enough. And the errors in the second game hurt us too.
errors advice honor
Honor thy error as a hidden intention. Brian Eno
errors people sin
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. Barbara Kingsolver
errors kept match threw
She threw in a lot of errors that kept the match pretty short. Lindsay Davenport
errors mental
She's been working on removing mental errors from her rounds. She's getting better at it.
errors mental-illness illness
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. David Mitchell
errors giving support
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou. Dave Barry
errors perception optical-illusions
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. Carl Sagan
errors answers may
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. Benjamin Robbins Curtis
errors vagueness belief
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. Bertrand Russell
errors reform cost
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy. Carlos Mesa
errors hitting needed paid people positive switching trying
We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and needed more positive hits. I think it paid off.
errors history vomiting
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. Charles de Gaulle
errors charm form
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. Arthur Keith
errors age degrees
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love. Carl Jung
errors important progress
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
errors safe reacting
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. Bill Johnson