Top 100 Errors Are Quotes
#1. Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
Yogi Berra
#2. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James
#3. The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
Adam Gopnik
#4. In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.
Sherry Turkle
#5. A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
#6. Manipulating strings in C or C++ is error prone. Four common errors are unbounded string copies, off-by-one errors, null-termination errors, and string truncation.
Robert C. Seacord
#7. Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
William Law
#8. Intuitive errors are normally much more frequent among ego-depleted people, and the drinkers of Splenda showed the expected depletion effect. On the other hand, the glucose drinkers were not depleted. Restoring the level of available sugar in the brain had prevented the deterioration of performance.
Daniel Kahneman
#9. Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton
#10. Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
George Sand
#11. No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person's character.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
Karl Popper
#13. Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines
Steve McConnell
#14. If the observation were made to you that "Strangers become intimate, and as intimacy grows they lower their guards and less mind their manners until errors are made, which decreases intimacy until estrangement exceeds that which existed before the strangers ever met," would you be inclined to agree?
Padgett Powell
#15. 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.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#16. Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#17. Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
Nelson Mandela
#18. There are distinctive patterns in the errors people make. Systematic errors are known as biases, and they recur predictably in particular circumstances.... The availability of a diagnostic label for this bias--the halo effect--makes it easier to anticipate, recognize, and understand.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#21. Systematic errors are known as biases, and they recur predictably in particular circumstances.
Daniel Kahneman
#22. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
#23. All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov
#24. ERRORS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. PLOT TWIST: I'M A HORSE.
Amy King
#25. Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.
Mikhail Tal
#26. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Franz Kafka
#27. The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Anatole France
#28. Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
A. Lee Martinez
#29. Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell
#30. James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.
Robert Wachter
#31. Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.
Ernest Kurtz
#32. [T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.
John Stuart Mill
#33. Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
Mason Cooley
#34. Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.
Erwin Rommel
#36. My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Michel De Montaigne
#37. Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in the attempt.
Peter C. Brown
#39. Errors are excllent projectiles ... Factions are blind men who aim straight
Victor Hugo
#40. It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
Bill Bennett
#41. The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
Oscar Wilde
#42. The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.
Sathya Sai Baba
#43. In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
Lindley Murray
#45. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
#46. The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly; they hide in what it ignores or tacitly assumes.
Daniel Kahneman
#47. Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#48. The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#49. Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
Thomas Aquinas
#50. The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage
#51. As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
John Fahey
#52. Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#53. People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#54. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;
Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.
Joseph Addison
#55. In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn't be frowned upon. Wrong again; these cunts are out to protect their pocket books and paradigms.
Scott Parker
#56. The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
Malcolm Gladwell
#57. In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.
John Kessel
#58. We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
#61. Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.
Radley Balko
#62. It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#64. Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.
Letitia Baldrige
#65. Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
Ernest Renan
#66. Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
C.S. Lewis
#67. Ninety-five percent of the trading errors you are likely to make - causing the money to just evaporate before your eyes - will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table. What I call the four primary trading fears.
Mark Douglas
#68. The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#69. As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.
Charles Caleb Colton
#71. Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
Bill Mollison
#72. Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
Gautama Buddha
#74. There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Tony Hoare
#75. Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.
Boris Pasternak
#76. Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Jonathan Miller
#77. Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
Jules Verne
#79. Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them ...
Benjamin Rush
#80. The taxonomy of medical error is vast, colorful, and at times confusing. There are slips, lapses, harmless hits, and near misses; errors of omission and of commission; operator errors, system errors, accidents, complications, and bad outcomes.
Nancy Berlinger
#81. A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
Arthur Helps
#82. Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.
James Lee
#83. We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another's error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis
#85. I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Barbra Streisand
#86. Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.
Leopold Auer
#87. People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
Jonathan Haidt
#89. There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
#90. Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.
Jim C. Hines
#91. The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.
James Monroe
#92. Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become boundless [ ... ] In fathoming this abyss no bottom has been found. We are now to examine what discoveries Sir Isaac Newton has made in it.
Voltaire
#93. All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
Mahatma Gandhi
#94. I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors.
There is so much aspiration in them,
so much audacious hope and trembling fear,
so much of the heart's history, that all errors
and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of
in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#95. Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
Jacob Bronowski
#96. Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.
Andrew Rosenthal
#97. The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
Richard Whately
#98. Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
Murray Rothbard
#99. There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.
Bryan Caplan
#100. What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.
Audrey Sutherland
