Error Quotes

1098 quotes by 772 authors

I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to… — Jorge Valdano
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and… — Michael Hardt
A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it. — Robert Ruark
The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no… — Henry Thomas Buckle
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy. — Carlos Mesa
The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs. — Samuel Warren Carey
Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of… — Lance Berkman
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may… — Ouida
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a clichÃ© ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained… — Leonhard Euler
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error… — Anthony Lane
If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. — Edwin Catmull
Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to… — Allan Holdsworth
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that… — Thomas Merton
Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of… — M R DeHaan
A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place… — Jonathan Rauch
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect… — C L R James
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my… — Edmund Gosse
It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to… — Ted Olson

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