Errors Quotes
1544 quotes by 1029 authors
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It would be a sad error in judgement to mistake me for a corpse.
— Kane
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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them…
— Albert Einstein
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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
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Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to…
— Jeff Buckley
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He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults…
— John of Kronstadt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.
— Jim Rohn
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You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.
— Tim Harford
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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
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What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will…
— Anne Perry
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Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or…
— John Medina
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The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To…
— John Medina
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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
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
— Jack Kornfield
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
— Nick Harkaway
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Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives,…
— Rolf Dobelli
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