Error Quotes

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The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, — Lucian Leape
It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely… — Stephen Harper
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;… — Aleister Crowley
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was… — Alan Kay
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to… — Linus Pauling
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will… — Paul Krugman
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where… — Margaret Thatcher
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of… — Diane Ravitch
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy. — Primo Levi
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. — Henri Poincare
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation. — Simon Bolivar
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. — John Kenneth Galbraith
As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to… — Tom Glavine
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth… — Benjamin Tucker
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some… — Anthony Braxton
TheÂ environmentÂ itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who… — Maria Montessori
When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely. — Louis van Gaal

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