Error Quotes
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I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
George Ryan -
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
Thomas Carlyle
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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 -
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 -
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.
Edouard Boubat -
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
Thomas Aquinas -
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
Andrew Jackson Davis -
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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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
Evan Esar -
Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.
Nathan Eldon Tanner -
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.
Brigham Young -
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
Richard Whately -
One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
Bill Mollison -
It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.
Ernest Sosa
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
Emanuel Lasker -
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
Nick Harkaway -
What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
Boyd K. Packer -
Without error there can be no brilliancy.
Emanuel Lasker -
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history.
Michel Foucault -
Genius is the error in the system.
Paul Klee
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The problem in society we have at the moment is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the consequence of error.
Michael Ryan -
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
Beryl Markham -
Early scientific thinking was holistic, but speculative -- the modern scientific temper reacted by being empirical, but atomistic. Neither is free from error, the former because it replaces factual inquiry with faith and insight, and the latter because it sacrifices coherence at the altar of facticity. We witness today another shift in ways of thinking: the shift toward rigorous but holistic theories. This means thinking in terms of facts and events in the context of wholes, forming integrated sets with their own properties and relationships.
Ervin Laszlo -
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
Suzanne Farrell