Errors Quotes
1544 quotes by 1029 authors
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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
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There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural…
— Joseph Fourier
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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
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
— Georg Brandes
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Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
— Paul Halmos
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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
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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
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Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines…
— Robert Browning
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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated…
— Gautama Buddha
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If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.
— Edwin Catmull
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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
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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
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Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
— Laozi
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I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when…
— Victor Serge
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