Errors Quotes

• To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Focus
  • Suffering
  • Personality

• And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Important
  • May

• By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Mistake
  • Errors

• If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.

  

  Amishi Jha
  • Errors
  • Dysfunction
  • Decision-Making

• Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Long

• When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

  

  Plato
  • Know
  • Errors
  • Supposes

• The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Numbers
  • Committed
  • Legion

• But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.

  

  Carl Eckart
  • Study
  • Ancient
  • Writings

• Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Growth
  • Process
  • Ingredients

• Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

  

  H. Lee Scott, Jr.
  • Cost
  • Errors
  • Settling

• Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • People
  • Empathy
  • Founders

• Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Help
  • Mistake
  • Looks

• The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Truth
  • Running

• Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Work
  • Study
  • Religion

• New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

  

  William Hague
  • Long
  • Term
  • Century

• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Views
  • Errors

• Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Player
  • Ignorance
  • Patience

• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Politics
  • Instincts
  • Newspaper

• Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Progress
  • Errors
  • Recognizing

• Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Training
  • Errors
  • Recorded

• Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Mistake
  • inspirational

• When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Errors
  • Baggage

• For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Should
  • Remembered
  • Mirrors

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