Quotes About Error

A false idea or a diverging step at the outset may lead to a false religion throughout life, to an imperfect and superficial goodness, as one incorrect figure or sign in an equation falsifies both process and result.

Acesta este infernul: eternitatea r?ut??ii, eternitatea erorii, imposibilitatea binelui, imposibilitatea r?scump?r?rii.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

In the face of all the uncertainties that surround any decision, the wise man acts in the light of his best judgment illumined by the integrity of his profoundest spiritual insights. Then the rest is in the hands of the future and in the mind of God. The possibility of error, of profound and terrible error, is at once the height and the depth of man's freedom. For this, God be praised!

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

But I was a fool, the biggest, damnedest, stupidest fool in thee whole world.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

I while yet a youth wrote in a quite large volume three books of magical things, which I called De occulta philosophia , in which whatever was then erroneous because of my curious youth, now, more cautious, I wish to retract by this recantation, for formerly I spent much time and goods on these vanities.

In 1959 Corrie was part of a group that visited Ravensbruck, which was then in East Germany, to honor Betsie and the 96,000 other women who died there. There Corrie learned that her own release had been part of a clerical error; one week later all women her age were taken to the gas chamber.

Capital punishment is an extreme sanction that would perhaps have been suitable for this most extreme of crimes, but we make mistakes, and taking another life due to human error is the worst we can do in a society based on law. And even if we get it right, killing the killer is not going to bring back the victims.

If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a very long time.

It was a mistake," I assure him, "for about ten different reasons I'm not going to list.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.

If she loved rashly, her life paid for wrong— A heavy price must all pay who thus err,      In some shape; let none think to fly the danger, For soon or late Love is his own avenger.

I made a tactical error tonight with Wyatt. She paused Horizontally. Sara laughed. Again?