Errors Quotes · Page 25

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

— Thomas Paine

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

— Dick Taylor

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

— Troy Glaus

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

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

— Tim Powers

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

— Nick Harkaway

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

— Richard P. Feynman

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?

— John William Draper

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

— James Longstreet

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch…

— Ann Radcliffe

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

— Michael Schur

Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…

— Alexander Hamilton

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

— Adrian Rogers

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

— William Shakespeare

Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the…

— Antonin Scalia

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible…

— Anonymous

What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

— Dale E. Turner

The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

— Richard Henry Pratt

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the…

— Charles Caleb Colton