Errors Quotes · Page 39

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound…

— Charles Babbage

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

— Ayn Rand

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures…

— Sally Mann

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

— Robert M. Lindner

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

— Horace

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

— Clifford Truesdell

“Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and…

— Vance Havner

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a…

— Carl Sagan

Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not…

— Mary Baker Eddy

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his…

— Bob Uecker

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

— Antonin Scalia

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

The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most…

— Paul Washer

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is…

— Joseph Fourier

If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…

— Tertullian

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life.…

— Gabriela Mistral

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,…

— John Dryden

Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of…

— Edward Gibbon

The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and…

— John of Kronstadt

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy…

— Walter Savage Landor

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

— Roger Joseph Boscovich

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow…

— Andrew Soltis

There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

— John C. Lilly

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of…

— Paul de Man

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

— Brené Brown

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

— Thomas Jefferson

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human…

— Christopher Morley

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

— C. V. Wedgwood

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

— Hermann Hesse

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

— Thomas Carlyle

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

— Anonymous

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

— Barbara Kingsolver

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

— Henry David Thoreau