If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt… — Lance Berkman Copy Share Image
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors. — Dean Alford Copy Share Image
Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families. — Steve Farrar Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works.… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics. — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image