Errors Quotes
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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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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
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Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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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.
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I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.
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I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.
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I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.
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Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
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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 truth has leavening virtue of its own.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
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When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
