Errors Quotes · Page 11

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

— Jerry Coleman

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.”

— Amit Kalantri

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

— Khalil Gibran

Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.

— Alexander Hamilton

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

— Andrew Mason

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

— John C. Lilly

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

— Brené Brown

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of…

— Paul de Man

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Horace

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

— Clifford Truesdell

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy…

— Walter Savage Landor

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

— Roger Joseph Boscovich

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is…

— Graham Greene

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every…

— Pliny the Younger

In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the…

— Huldrych Zwingli

That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it…

— Pope Gregory VII

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources…

— John William Strutt

Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the…

— Plato

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find…

— Walter Raleigh

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can.…

— Anonymous

A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options…

— Douglass North

From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly…

— Edward Anthony Spitzka

Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of…

— Arthur Trudeau

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…

— Thomas Paine

It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes…

— Swami Vivekananda

Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates…

— Oliver Ellsworth

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

— Jim Clyburn

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

— Victor Hugo

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

— Alexander Lowen

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

— George Sand

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

— Stand Watie

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

— Mario Benedetti

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

— C. S. Lewis