Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

Albert Einstein

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Alfred North Whitehead

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Alfred North Whitehead

Error itself may be happy chance.

Albert Einstein

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

We were a little stiff. We made some errors and couldn't seem to get runners on base.

Adrian Rogers

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

Jane Austen

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.

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

I don't know exactly how many errors we made, but it was way too many.

C. S. Lewis

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Edmund Burke

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Edmund Burke

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

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

Daniel Keys Moran

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Daniel Kahneman

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Clarence Darrow

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

David Arquette

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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.

Dale Carnegie

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

Alvin Toffler

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alveda King

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

Andrew Sullivan

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Andrew Solomon

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Ameen Rihani

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

Ambrose Bierce

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

Ambrose Bierce

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Alexander Pope

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Donald Berwick

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Duke of Wellington

Error is ever the sequence of haste.