logo

Quotes About Error

In real crises, the successful leaders are usually the ones who cope best with ignorance and error.
~ Unknown
That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.
~ Michael Robotham
Sometimes you can be very stupid!
~ Michael Scott
If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how are we gonna discover our wounds
~ Michael Strong
calamity of their own making.
~ Michael Wolff
people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning, ineluctably, with the odd mistake, a few errors when there's sickness in the mix, but it goes on turning to the end, to the final second.
~ Michel Houellebecq
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
~ Michelangelo
Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.
~ Unknown
But it seems clear that an increasing majority are not being helped by traditional religions and belief systems. Many are unable to separate the truth in the old doctrines from the distortions and degradations that time has added, and since they cannot accept error, they reject the truth as well. Others are so desperate for some order that they cling rigidly to whatever belief happens to be at hand—warts and all—and become fundamentalist Christians, or Muslims, or communists.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
~ Milton Berle
To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy
~ Unknown
Conditions may vary. We will strive to make your stay as comfortable as possible. However there will be turbulence. There will be unexpected events. There will be human error. Fortunately, we are happy to provide you love. At no extra cost.
~ Mo Willems
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
~ Unknown
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~ Unknown
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
~ Unknown
I marvel at your power to be mistaken.
~ Moliere
You have believed very wrongly, and I will be bound that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
~ Moliere
Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.
~ Unknown
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
~ Morris Kline
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
~ Unknown
True knowledge comes from the upward path which leads to the eternal Fire; error, defeat and death result from following the lower path of worldly attachment.
~ Unknown
17. Error does not develop In one who is in error. Error does not develop In one who is not in error. 18. Error does not develop In one in whom error is arising. In whom does error develop? Examine this on your own!
~ N?g?rjuna
Something bad happened to me, didn't it?" Worse than the captivity, worse than the torture after she created the labyrinth. Kaleb knew he'd made a major tactical error. But he'd promised Sahara he'd never lie to her, so he said, "Yes," and waited. "I'm not ready yet." Her hand fell to his shoulder. "Not strong enough yet. But I will be soon.
~ Nalini Singh