Errors Quotes

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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. — Richard P. Feynman
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions… — George Eliot
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what… — R A Salvatore
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse… — George MacDonald
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci
Thatâ€™s the thing with the young these days, isnâ€™t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile… — Nick Hornby
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same… — Neal A. Maxwell
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open… — James Joyce
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are… — Mark Strand
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a… — Carl Sagan
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth… — H. L. Mencken
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if… — Agatha Christie
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may… — Irenaeus of Lyons
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where… — Madeleine L'Engle
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what… — Og Mandino
...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. — Peter S. Beagle
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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