Quotes About Error

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

40Wednesday has been canceled due to a scheduling error.

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.

Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.