Error Quotes

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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment… — Dean Koontz
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbageâ€™s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical… — Ada Lovelace
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records… — Harry Browne
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? — Beryl Markham
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish… — Stefan Zweig
Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not… — John Rosemond
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,… — William Godwin
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end. — Philip Schaff
Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback… — Linus Torvalds
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my… — Phineas Quimby
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
Man is made of opinions,â€”of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error… — Phineas Quimby
The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error… — John Arbuthnot
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie

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