Errors Quotes

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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin
In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorâ€”a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception.… — David Brin
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts.… — Richard Ford
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge… — Edwin Powell Hubble
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to… — Philip Schaff
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of… — Zelda Fitzgerald
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other… — C.S. Lewis
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.… — Umberto Eco
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy. — Roger Joseph Boscovich
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things… — Jakob Nielsen
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. — Ludwig von Mises
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum… — Henry Hazlitt
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the… — Richard Hofstadter
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I… — Thomas A. Edison
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been… — Pope Leo XIII
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important.… — Chris Argyris
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer

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