A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth” — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“If the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity. — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
“I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“For the error bred in the bone of each woman and each man craves what it cannot have, not universal love but… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it… — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ ” — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of… — Hugh Douglas Copy Share Image
I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room… — Christine Teigen Copy Share Image
I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people… — Tony McCoy Copy Share Image
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently… — William James Copy Share Image
Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“As all this suggests our relationship with evidence is seldom purely a cognitive one. Vilifying menstruating women bolstering anti-Muslim stereotypes murdering innocent… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image