Errors Quotes
1544 quotes by 1029 authors
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that…
— Hans-Peter Durr
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In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the…
— Ralph Miller
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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
— Paul Brown
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs…
— Walter Lippmann
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There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have…
— John J. Pershing
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The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act…
— Simone Weil
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Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Where there is much freedom there is much error.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
— Francis Picabia
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The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate…
— Royal Robbins
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Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
— Leon Brown
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There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of…
— Anatole France
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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;…
— Richard Hamming
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Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.
— Janet Morris
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
— George Eliot
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