Quotes About Error

I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?

You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…

It is an error not only of soul but also of body, for they that muster for the next world before it has come can only betray their lives in this one.

It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.

Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.

Always questioning your motivations is a healthy thing, but fearing your capacity for doing the wrong thing so that you retreat from many aspects of life is a terrible error in itself.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.

Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

If we proportion our assent in all things to the degrees of evidence, we do the utmost that human nature is capable of, in a rational way, to secure itself from error.

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

If this is what you believe, you are wrong: Penthesilea

When you kill, you always kill the wrong man.

At the end of the month, the doors will close on our little club for the last time. The end of an error.

The quickest route to heresy and error is "relevant" evangelism. Good-hearted motivations that try to shape the church for the needs of man and not the glory of God are the death of biblical churches.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

the presence of that lone dissenter reduced the error rates of subjects by 75 percent. This is a crucial realization: If a group is embarking on an unfortunate course of action, a lone dissenter may turn it around by energizing ambivalent group members to join the dissent instead of following the crowd into error.

to ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.

I'm sorry!" I moaned. "Oh man, I messed up big time! How could I have been so stupid?

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Pop-up error alerts are the tool of the lazy. If an error does occur, the microinteraction should do everything in its power to fix it first