Error Quotes

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It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and… — Galileo Galilei
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts… — Amos Tversky
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment.… — Tim Harford
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from… — Al-Ghazali
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you… — Martin Luther
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. — Georges Canguilhem
We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while… — Dallin H. Oaks
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills… — Warren Buffett
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.… — Adin Ballou
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin
In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorâ€”a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception.… — David Brin
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts.… — Richard Ford
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to… — Philip Schaff
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy. — Roger Joseph Boscovich
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. — Ludwig von Mises
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the… — Richard Hofstadter
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I… — Thomas A. Edison
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been… — Pope Leo XIII

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