Quotes about err
errors hypothesis rationality
Karl Popper Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
errors doorways sticks
Josh Billings Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.
errors humanity humans
Karl Kraus To be human is erroneous.
errors stones answers
Paul Tillich The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
errors genius
Paul Klee Genius is the error in the system.
errors may definitions
Richard P. Feynman If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.
errors imagination incompetence
Richard Hofstadter If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
errors literature monkeys
Rebecca West It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.
errors mad ifs
Troy Glaus If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?
errors marketing vagueness
William Zinsser Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.
errors atheism ornaments
William Shakespeare In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
errors judgment humans
William Mulholland If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
errors superstitions lace
William F. Buckley, Jr. The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
errors stories way
Richard Russo Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
errors justice world
Ugo Betti Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.
errors judgment has-beens
Ulysses S. Grant My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
errors blood world
Umberto Eco History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.
errors trying imbalance
Rodrigo Rato To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
errands made
Samuel Rutherford I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
errors firsts facts
Samuel Johnson In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
errors inability care
Samuel Johnson The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
errors criticism may
Samuel Johnson All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
errors design casts
William Blake To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.
errors progress trials
Virginia Postrel Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
errors
Wayne Dyer You correct an error by bringing truth to it.
errors heaven trying
Robert Southwell The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.
errors confusion desire
Sarah Fielding Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
errors humans devilish
Saint Augustine It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
errors anxiety needs
Will Self With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
errors no-excuses excuse
Troy Aikman No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.
errors opinion humans
Voltaire The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
errors earth shapes
William C. Bryant Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.