Quotes About Error

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all wine out of the country, lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.

On a bien le droit de se tromper, après tout, mème volontairement.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

The problem with tradition is that it can cause even an error of great magnitude to go unnoticed

AMBER I'll be black in a minute. Mike Huh?!? AMBER I meant back! Freaking autocorrect. As far as I know, I won't be black anytime soon. Lol!

As we see it, the whole outlook brought about by the scientific revolution should have been--must be--a phase, only, of the evolution of consciousness. An absolutely indispensable phase, but a passing one. What is riveting it on to us and preventing us from superseding it, because it prevents us from even imaging any other kind of consciousness, is precisely this error of projecting it back into the past.

For inconsistent and slovenly thought can abide indefinitely in error without any feeling of discomfort.

la creencia de que se vive en la posesión de un librito que solo conoce de la verdad. Hombres peligrosos los del cavernario fanatismo, que no creen en el valor de la duda, en las virtudes del desconcierto, en la pesadumbre del error propio repetido.

The lesson here is, the way of truth is a very narrow path. Jesus was the Word made flesh. He spoke the Word of truth because He was truth. So when he began to explain to his disciples what had to come to pass in order that man's redemption could be attained, he was speaking God's truth. But when Peter reacted as he did, he was using his five senses and was going directly against the revealed Word of truth. Thus he was stepping off the narrow path and into error.

But people had figured out that if you crushed the pills—even if you just chewed them with your teeth—you could override the controlled-release mechanism and unleash a mammoth hit of pure oxycodone. It did not take much trial and error to make this discovery. In fact, each bottle came with a warning that, in retrospect, doubled as an inadvertent how-to:

It´s worst when it´s your own stupid fault isn't it?.

because the Japanese learners' attention was regularly drawn to form, they were primed to notice the corrective function of recasts. In the more meaning-oriented French immersion classes, however, recasts were less likely to signal to the learner that the teacher was responding to a language error. Thus is likely that learners assumed that the teachers' recast was simply a confirmation of what they had said.

input flood could help them add something new to their interlanguage, but did not lead them to get rid of an error based on their first language.

History is the error we are forever correcting." —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

es imposible que los dos estén en lo cierto. Sí es posible, en cambio, que los dos estén en un error

Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Our tendency to attribute our behavior to our context or to blame others for it is directly in contrast to how we tend to judge others' actions. When it comes to other people, we are far more likely to attribute the bad meal to their inability to cook rather than to other causes. This is called the fundamental attribution error.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'. To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.