Quotes About Error

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239

Assume makes an ass out of you and me.

Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.