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Quotes About Error

For the error bred in the bone of each woman and each man craves what it cannot have, not universal love but to be loved alone.
~ W.H. Auden
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
~ Paul Keres
One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.
~ Janet Morris
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
~ Robert Orben
RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.
~ Dave Barry
When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.
~ Seth Lloyd
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.
~ Robert Burchfield
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
~ Charles Kettering
But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
~ George Ryan
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
~ Jacques Ellul
Todo es un error -le dije-. ¿No es eso lo que me has estado diciendo? No existe más que error. Ahí está el meollo del mundo. Nadie encuentra su vida. Eso es la vida.
~ Philip Roth
It was said that familiarity bred contempt, but surely ignorance bred error.
~ Piers Anthony
My opinion is: Truth must be absolute and that you Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is indeed my opinion, then you must concede that it is true according to your philosophy.
~ Plato
Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That
~ Plato
For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as he is what his name implies; they none of them err unless their skill fails them, and then they cease to be skilled artists. No artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies; though he is commonly said to err.
~ Plato
La mayoría de la gente no se ha dado cuenta de que no sabe lo que son realmente las cosas. Sin embargo, y como si lo supieran, no se ponen de acuerdo en los comienzos de su investigación, sino que, siguiendo adelante, lo natural es que paguen su error al no haber alcanzado esa concordia, ni entre ellos mismos, ni con los otros.
~ Plato
Éste es en general el error de la juventud: contentarse con semiverdades y creer conocer lo que no conoce; sobre todo, éste era el de la juventud ateniense en la época de Sócrates y de Platón, viciada como estaba por los sofistas.
~ Plato
Estrangeiro - Ora, errar nada mais é do que se desviar do seu caminho a alma, quando intenta alcançar a verdade, sem passar ao lado dela o entendimento.
~ Plato
Manusia tidak mencapai kebenaran dalam semua aspeknya, dan tidak akan terjatuh ke dalam kesalahan dalam semua aspeknya.
~ Plato
Satan will first attempt to destroy the power of the Papacy and bring about the downfall of the Church through heresies, schisms and persecutions that must surely follow. Failing in this, he will then attack the Church from without. For this purpose he will raise up Antichrist and his prophet to lead the faithful into error and destroy those who remain steadfast.
~ Unknown