Top 100 Error Quotes
#1. It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#2. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.
Steve Maraboli
#3. Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#4. A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
B.F. Skinner
#5. It's not something easily done alone and there is no room for error.
Mark T. Barnes
#7. The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
Werner Heisenberg
#8. If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.
Paul Krugman
#9. I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.
Michael Servetus
#10. I'm so worried that I'm going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.
Sally Mann
#11. Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
Orhan Pamuk
#12. It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
Jesse Jackson
#14. You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.
Mikhail Kalinin
#15. From anger comes delusion - delusion in turn leads to loss of memory - loss of memory leads to loss of reason (error in judgment) And ultimately loss of reason (lack of discrimination) ruins a person.
Commander VK Jaitly
#16. There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world.
Thomas Hardy
#20. The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
Christopher Hitchens
#21. We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.
Dallin H. Oaks
#22. Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
Carl Jung
#24. Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error.
Nate Silver
#25. A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
Robert Ruark
#26. Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but so diluted with human error as to be more deadly than complete falsehood.
Walter Ralston Martin
#27. When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.
Shepard Smith
#28. You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.
P.G. Wodehouse
#29. As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
Louis Pasteur
#30. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
David Brin
#31. Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.
Wayne Dyer
#32. We hope you have not made the error of supposing that to criticize is always to disagree. (...) To agree is just as much of an exercise of critical judgment on your part as to disagree.
Mortimer J. Adler
#33. We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error'.
Oliver Burkeman
#34. Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
Tony Blair
#35. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
Bill Gosper
#36. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.
Tim Harford
#37. False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
Jean De La Bruyere
#38. Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
#39. Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Christine Baranski
#40. Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.
Carl Sagan
#41. The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.
Frank Herbert
#42. The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#43. Do not make the error of considering my son a child, the Duke said. And he smiled.
Frank Herbert
#44. Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
Arthur Schopenhauer
#45. But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.
Galileo Galilei
#46. As long as on the earth endures his life
To deal with him have full and free permission;
Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
William C. Bryant
#48. No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
Georges Duhamel
#49. Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#50. Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#51. Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
Andrew Soltis
#52. There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
James Garner
#53. Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#54. Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#55. I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.
Stephen Hawking
#56. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.
Robert M. Pirsig
#57. Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.
Steve Jones
#58. Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#59. Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#60. Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.
Ernst Mach
#61. To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.
Elaine Scarry
#62. Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between "he"
and "I.
Linda Pastan
#64. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke
#65. Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe, a small error is essential for enhancing existence. Without error, there is no movement. Death follows.
Jacques Lecoq
#67. Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.
Nick D'Aloisio
#68. I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy.
Robert Englund
#70. The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
Alexander Pope
#71. It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
Jacob Bigelow
#72. Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.
Phillip E. Johnson
#73. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to o'erpeer.
William Shakespeare
#75. It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.
Elton Trueblood
#76. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
#77. Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#78. My opinion is: Truth must be absolute and that you Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is indeed my opinion, then you must concede that it is true according to your philosophy.
Plato
#80. 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
#81. Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there is no effort without error. In the end, you will either know the triumph of high achievement, or if you fail, you will fail while daring greatly.
Tessa Afshar
#82. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.
Isabel Allende
#84. Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error
Warren Buffett
#86. Even the purest and most high-minded scientist finds it expedient sometimes to assault the fortress of truth with the blunt weapon of trail and error. sometimes it works beautifully.
Isaac Asimov
#87. Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
Marcel Proust
#88. The quickest way to detect error in analogy is to carry it out as far as it will go - and further. Every analogy will break down somewhere. Any analogy if carried out far enough becomes absurd.
Henry Hazlitt
#90. It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
Edward Steichen
#91. The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.
Herbert M. Shelton
#93. Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
Paul Stamets
#94. The seed of error that took root during the fourth and fifth centuries blossomed into the Roman Catholic Church - a perversion of biblical Christianity.
David A. Fisher
#96. All men have a natural fear of making a mistake
by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.
Soren Kierkegaard
#97. Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set.
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.
Tom Kenny
#99. Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
Tony Snow
#100. To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.
Confucius
