Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade. — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives… — George Gillespie Copy Share Image
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1) Not finishing 2) Not starting” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“In the end, the Duke of Kent’s daughter was christened Victoria Alexandrina. - error on page 6” — Sylvia Barbara Soberton Copy Share Image
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image