Quotes about err
errors tolerance enemy
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. Allan Bloom
errors self frail
I am a frail vessel full of errors. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
errors justice execution
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure. Albert Einstein
errors progress pay
Error is the price we pay for progress. Alfred North Whitehead
errors may chance
Error itself may be happy chance.
errors long progress
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
errors recognition
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. Alexander Lowen
errors judging world
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Alexander Pope
erring chance discord
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
errors design facts
We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact. Donald Berwick
errors haste sequence
Error is ever the sequence of haste. Duke of Wellington
errors imagination catholic
Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors Alphonsus Liguori
errors racism abortion
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. Alveda King
errors ifs
If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error? Andrew Sullivan
errors looks done
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of. Andrew Solomon
errors tests handle
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. Daniel Keys Moran
errors objectives observers
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are. Daniel Kahneman
errors evil soul
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. Clarence Darrow
errors trying trials
I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error. David Arquette
errors judging political
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise. David Harvey
errors may reform
To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. Confucius
errors intellectual doctrine
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines. Ameen Rihani
errors neighbor embrace
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. Ambrose Bierce
errors brain opponents
Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
errors recognition metaphor
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. Alvin Toffler
errors game pitch
Those are our staples-we pitch and play defense. That's about as many errors as we've made in a game all year, especially at home.
errors intellectual environmental
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income. E. F. Schumacher
errors things-in-life missing
If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
errors mind weak
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes
errors owing matter
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.
errors nations
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, Thomas Paine
errors consistency vices
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
errors sound helping
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. Thomas Huxley