Errors Quotes · Page 21

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

— Julia Stiles

Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of…

— Anonymous

One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider…

— Carl Sagan

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas…

— Anthony Bourdain

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

— William Shakespeare

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or…

— John Ruskin

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

— Jerry Coleman

In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,…

— Arthur Koestler

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that…

— Anonymous

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

— David Brin

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both…

— Aristotle

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same…

— Amos Tversky

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

— Plato

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind…

— John Arbuthnot

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be…

— Chad Harbach

Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so…

— John William Draper

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

— John Keats

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If…

— Mike Tyson

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

— R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as…

— James MacDonald

Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss…

— Victor C. Ferkiss