Error Quotes

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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations… — Vince Lombardi
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. — Paul Tillich
It would be a sad error in judgement to mistake me for a corpse. — Kane
If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time,… — E F Schumacher
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while… — E.C. Riegel
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science… — Howard Aiken
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right… — Martin Luther
For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace… — Martin Luther
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose,… — Maria Montessori
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais… — Adolf Anderssen
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. — Nick Harkaway
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. — Benjamin Franklin
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the… — Sterling W Sill
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized… — Pope Gregory VII

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