Quotes about errors
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
errors gentleman half
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is William Osler
errors stories way
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. Richard Russo
errors flesh gorgeous
I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. Sylvia Plath
errors differences hinduism
One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth. Swami Vivekananda
errors tiny imagine
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
errors perfection soul
It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.
errors personality neurosis
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not. Rollo May
errors evil looks
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
errors preparation done
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. Zebulon Pike