Quotes on Errors

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!