Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob McKenzie

If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bill Johnson

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

This will not happen again, ... This was an error of judgment. I've learned a lot.

Jane Austen

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Blaise Pascal

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

Barbara Kingsolver

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

Barbra Streisand

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

Brigham Young

Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.

Brennan Manning

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Edmund Burke

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Edmund Burke

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edwin Powell Hubble

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

Edwin Powell Hubble

At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.

Arthur Koestler

In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

Arthur Koestler

Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

Ayrton Senna

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Ayn Rand

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

Ayn Rand

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ayn Rand

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

Benjamin Cardozo

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Arthur Keith

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

Norman Geisler

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.