Errors Quotes
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.
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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 as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
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The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
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Inborn errors of metabolism.
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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
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When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
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Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.
