Error Quotes
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All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.
Eugenio Maria de Hostos
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A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...
John Lennon
The Beatles
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
Gautama Buddha
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Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
Nick Harkaway
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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
Evan Esar
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
Nick Harkaway
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
Sigmund Freud
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
Soren Kierkegaard
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Without error there can be no brilliancy.
Emanuel Lasker
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Complete accountability is established and enforced throughout; and if there there is any error committed, it will be discovered on a comparison with the books and can be traced to its source.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
Emanuel Lasker
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
Andrew Jackson Davis
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A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
Colin Greenwood
Radiohead
