Errors Quotes
1544 quotes by 1029 authors
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
— Hannah Arendt
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
— Isaac Asimov
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
— Isaac Asimov
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
— Francis Bacon
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
— Lord Acton
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our…
— Bruce Barton
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of…
— Bernard Baruch
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think,…
— Joko Beck
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -…
— Annie Besant
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your…
— Edward de Bono
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were…
— David Brainerd
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I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and…
— Jessica Alba
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger…
— William Jennings Bryan
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