We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected;… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river,… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. — Georges Bidault Copy Share Image
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with… — Takeda Shingen Copy Share Image
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs. — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case… — Glenford Myers Copy Share Image
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
