Error Quotes - Page 2

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It won’t, darlin’, it won’t.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An' foolish notion.

I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.

Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God – or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong

Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered

The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a group unique to the first century. Pharisaism is a poisonous weed that grows in every garden of orthodox religion. Pharisaism is every bit the threat to the orthodox today that it was then.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect .

It’s been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.

No definite sciencewithout trial & error.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say “I am right, but I may be wrong”. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!

Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.

Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.

Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.

Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.

Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’

Life corrects the errors of logic.

The cautious seldom err.

When every one is in the wrong every one is in the right.

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

It’s ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!