Quotes about errors
errors liberty inheritance
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. Edmund Burke
errors liberty complaining
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
errors shadow telescopes
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. Edwin Powell Hubble
errors lasts horizon
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.
errors political single-life
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
errors generations consequence
Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
errors happens
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet. Ayrton Senna
errors purpose may
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 demand moral
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
errors evil waiting
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.
errors growth ingredients
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. Benjamin Cardozo
errors sincerity earnest
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Benjamin Disraeli
errors quality bishops
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.
errors trying spirit
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. C. S. Lewis
errors charm form
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. Arthur Keith
errors farther great learn mind shoulders small standing stood test time truths worth
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. Norman Geisler
errors self frail
I am a frail vessel full of errors. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
errors justice execution
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure. Albert Einstein
errors progress pay
Error is the price we pay for progress. Alfred North Whitehead
errors may chance
Error itself may be happy chance.
errors long progress
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
errors recognition
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. Alexander Lowen
errors taste nudity
Nudity is undignified and an error of taste Adolf Hitler
errors runners seem
We were a little stiff. We made some errors and couldn't seem to get runners on base.
errors tolerance enemy
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. Allan Bloom
errors baggage sin
When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error. Adrian Rogers
errors light crowds
I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.
errors ordinary profit
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. Adam Smith
errors giving letters
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly. Ada Lovelace
errors good hit players
We had a pretty good game. We didn't hit but errors killed us. The players are still learning.
errors game good league loaded mental physical possible small speed step stop work
We need to work on getting some good wins. The league is loaded with good teams. We want to make the playoffs. Is it likely? It's possible ? we're just going to have to step it up come game day. Because we have a lot of speed we're going to play small ball. Defensively, we have to stop making errors ? not physical errors but mental mistakes.
errors overcome routine talented
Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.
errors hitting reason
Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.