Top 100 Quotes About Errors
#2. It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
Louis D. Brandeis
#3. 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.
Esther Dyson
#4. There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.
Lester Levenson
#6. I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#7. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
John Dryden
#8. Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
A. Lee Martinez
#9. If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the "facts" given on the site.
Randolph Hock
#10. 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
#11. From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.
Busy Philipps
#12. It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.
Thomas Jefferson
#14. When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.
Jared Diamond
#15. Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.
Robert A. Giacalone
#16. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
#17. The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.
Donald A. Norman
#18. Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
Jonathan Swift
#19. Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.
Robert A. Giacalone
#20. This was the pivotal insight of the Scientific Revolution: that the advancement of knowledge depends on current theories collapsing in the face of new insights and discoveries. In this model of progress, errors do not lead us away from the truth. Instead, they edge us incrementally toward it.
Kathryn Schulz
#21. It's a moment to learn. This was the thing about miscalculations, errors, and mistakes. You admitted them, you used them as teachable moments, and then you moved on. You didn't forget, but you didn't dwell.
Meg Howrey
#22. Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.
C.J. Mahaney
#23. My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.
Joe Torre
#24. [Our errors] represent a moment of alienation, both from ourselves and from a previously convincing vision of the world. But what's wrong with that? "To alienate" means to make unfamiliar; and to see things - including ourselves - as unfamiliar is an opportunity to see them anew.
Kathryn Schulz
#25. It's good netiquette to avoid information that offends or challenge errors when confronted.
David Chiles
#26. Always document template method requirements by implementing matching methods that raise useful errors.
Anonymous
#27. Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes, the struggle is joined between perverted freedoms and just freedoms.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#28. Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
Ayn Rand
#29. More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#30. Some errors you can only see once you've committed them.
Daniel Abraham
#31. My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
Donald Knuth
#32. With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
Francis Arinze
#33. The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
Eugenie De Guerin
#34. Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
Matthew Henry
#35. He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings ... " He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.
Nick Hornby
#36. Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.
Nancy Friday
#37. There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#38. We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that is our own, that is to say, something we could not have learned, something that arises out of the virtues and errors of our own self
Johann Gottfried Herder
#39. Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
Juliet Marillier
#41. I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#42. Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.
Gael Monfils
#43. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
#44. All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#45. Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
Miles Davis
#46. Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
Colin Firth
#47. There is something of tragedy and a 'comedy of eternal errors' when we attempt to write great scripts of rescue when we are the ones in need of rescue.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Barry Ritholtz
#49. Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Mika Waltari
#51. Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume
#52. It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
David D. Burns
#53. Elephants have a theory of mind - they can think into the head of another elephant and infer their knowledge of the world, including errors and omissions of knowledge. That puts them above all but a handful of species - a few primates, some very smart birds and cetaceans.
Alastair Reynolds
#54. Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
Warren G. Bennis
#55. Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.
Glenn Beck
#56. As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel
#58. There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.
Trey Gowdy
#59. Failure to recognize the difficulty in escaping a situation of high debt intolerance simply through growth and gently falling ratios of debt to GNP is one of the central errors underlying many standard calculations employed both by the private sector and by official analysts during debt crises.
Anonymous
#60. Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
Henry Fielding
#61. Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
Plato
#63. I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.
Martha Beck
#65. And last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading ... excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors ... I'm not a proofreader of any great merit.
Mark Twain
#66. Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
George S. Patton
#67. Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.
Donald A. Norman
#68. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Franz Kafka
#69. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
Rudolf Flesch
#70. The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Aberjhani
#71. There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.
Dale Carnegie
#72. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If
J.C. Ryle
#74. I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.
John Kennedy Toole
#75. Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.
David Hume
#76. Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
Hans Selye
#77. The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Larry Ellison
#78. How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?
John William Draper
#79. Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.
Stephen Richards
#80. That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors.
Michael Chabon
#81. The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
Rene Descartes
#82. As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?
Pope Leo X
#83. Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?
Michel De Montaigne
#85. It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.
Craig Venter
#86. The defects of the West are innumerable, its crimes and errors very real. But in the end, let's not forget that we are the only ones to have the possibility of improvement and emancipation that lies in free genius.
Albert Camus
#87. No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.
Troy Aikman
#88. 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
#89. I tried to code myself by applying each law and rule of the humans on me... what did it happen?
- More like a problems... errors... and glitches were on the way.
Deyth Banger
#90. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
Philip Yancey
#91. Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
Virginia Postrel
#92. Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.
Max Anders
#93. Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
Clint Eastwood
#94. Don't you think we shall all be kinder to one another? I hope one's class will matter less and one's convictions more. I hope we might be more inclined to pardon one another for our errors with both.
Chris Cleave
#95. All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.
Dave Barry
#96. I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles De Gaulle
#97. Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language - a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer's decisions.
Noy Holland
#98. Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. We have two selves: a real-world self and a phone self, and the nonsense our phone selves do can make our real-world selves look like idiots...Act like a dummy with your phone self aand send some thoughtless message full of spelling errors, and the real-world self will pay the price.
Aziz Ansari
#100. Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.
E.A. Bucchianeri
