One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when… — Robert Pollack Copy Share Image
The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner 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
It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err. — William Shakespeare 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
From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive:… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be… — Bob McKenzie Copy Share Image
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with… — Alexandra Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
