Quotes about errors
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
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 want about-yourself
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. Jimmy Wales
errors humanity humans
To be human is erroneous. Karl Kraus
errors black comedy
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. Tom Stoppard
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