Quotes About Error

for that is all it was—was the greatest faux pas of his career.

now he had done it again.

he misjudged the risks. The result was a disintegration of his forces.

Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.

Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.

May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist.

to err is human, to forgive, divine." "You like Shakespeare, do you?

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly.

Individuals were dangerously captured by belief in their own financial acumen and intelligence and conveyed this error to others.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Sometimes, sorry isn't enough when you screw up too much.

J'avais commis tant d'erreurs que je ne pouvais pas remonter jusqu'à la première dans le labyrinthe qu'elles formaient.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

To err is human - but it feels divine.

Errar es humano, pero se siente divino.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.