Errors Quotes

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Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback… — Linus Torvalds
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my… — Phineas Quimby
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
Man is made of opinions,â€”of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error… — Phineas Quimby
The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error… — John Arbuthnot
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then… — Pierre Bayle
Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix. — Dick Taylor
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important… — Edward Steichen
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that… — Morris West
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the… — Carl Sagan
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it… — Paracelsus
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be… — Elwyn Brooks White
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. — Benjamin Disraeli

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