Errors Quotes · Page 12

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

— George Ryan

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

— Troy Glaus

“Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.”

— Vannetta Chapman

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

— Anonymous

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

— Shannon Woodward

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

— Anne Fadiman

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something…

— Maria Montessori

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,

— Lucian Leape

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

— Mahatma Gandhi

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound…

— Charles Babbage

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

— Ayn Rand

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures…

— Sally Mann

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

— Norman Vincent Peale

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so…

— Max Planck

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error…

— Ellis Paul Torrance

Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence…

— Ronald Wright

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas…

— George Eliot

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience…

— Vir Das

The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is…

— Francis Bacon

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . .…

— Charles Mackay

As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide…

— Michel de Montaigne

We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be…

— Brigham Young

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that…

— Adrian Rogers

In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed…

— Edward Gibbon

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

— Jim Rohn

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

— Rabindranath Tagore

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

— Saint Augustine

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

— Alexander Hamilton

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

— David Mitchell

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

— Georges Canguilhem

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

— William Hazlitt

If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.

— Jeff Bezos