Quotes about error
errors sound movement
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported. James Monroe
errors government federalism
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other. James Madison
errors veils way
[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.
errors people trying
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them. Stefan Zweig
errors reason said
We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. Thomas B. Macaulay
errors politics weapons
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Thomas Jefferson
errors enemy enquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
errors politics truth-is
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
errors childhood inmates
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably. Thomas Bernhard
errors mad ifs
If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in? Troy Glaus
errors humanity humans
To be human is erroneous. Karl Kraus
errors superstitions lace
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. William F. Buckley, Jr.
errors humans devilish
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. Saint Augustine
errors anxiety needs
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. Will Self
errors firsts facts
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. Samuel Johnson
errors inability care
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
errors criticism may
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
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design. William Blake
errors opinion humans
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Voltaire
errors earth shapes
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. William C. Bryant
errors understanding mastery
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. Walter Savage Landor
errors literature common
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. Walter Gilbert
errors ninety percent
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. Yogi Berra
errors virtue avoided
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Winston Churchill
errors marketing vagueness
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. William Zinsser
errors atheism ornaments
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? William Shakespeare
errors judgment humans
If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human. William Mulholland
errors progress trials
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors. Virginia Postrel
errors
You correct an error by bringing truth to it. Wayne Dyer
errors no-excuses excuse
No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening. Troy Aikman
errors confusion desire
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. Sarah Fielding
errors world dread
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. William Hazlitt
errors long stupidity
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! Wendell Berry