Quotes about error
errors people revolution
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them. Thomas Jefferson
errors enquiry inquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
errors humanity debt
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
errors justice world
Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. Ugo Betti
errors judgment has-beens
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. Ulysses S. Grant
errors blood world
History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error. Umberto Eco
errors trying imbalance
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. Rodrigo Rato
errors may definitions
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. Richard P. Feynman
errors imagination incompetence
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. Richard Hofstadter
errors literature monkeys
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. Rebecca West
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
errors perfection evolution
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
errors enemy reform
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Thomas Browne
errors groveling
We do not find truth groveling through error. Thomas S. Monson
errors sin human-nature
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? Thomas Sowell
errors age prejudice
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. Samuel Johnson
errors problem mankind
One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors. Ronald Reagan
errors heaven trying
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. Robert Southwell
errors important littles
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed. Steve Allen
errors devil prejudice
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. Tryon Edwards
errors giving credit
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell
errors evil common
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved. Sophocles
errors intention commit
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention. Stand Watie
errors debt littles
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain. Thomas Malthus
errors tree giants
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. Thomas Merton
errors silence
There were grammatical errors even in his silence. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
errors atheism born
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
errors ignorant wonder
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons Pietro Metastasio
errors world care
If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that. Ramakrishna