Error Quotes

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

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

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

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.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

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

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

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

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

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

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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

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

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

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.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.