A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake. — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. — John Keats Copy Share Image
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense… — Otto E. Neugebauer Copy Share Image
I cannot do everything right, I need to have the scope to make errors. This is normal, as in real life. — Mario Gotze Copy Share Image
I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk… — John G. Stumpf Copy Share Image
I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I… — Bill Bellamy Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies,… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image