Quotes About Error

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

Science appears to be the human enterprise that is most systematic in its attempt to eliminate error in the search for knowledge.

partial sum is correct within an error less than the first term neglected.

The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.

I think one is always in love with something or other; the error—and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it—consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal.

I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human fantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning. Epipsychidion

This presumption by the professor that her students will readily follow something complex that appears fundamental in her own mind is a metacognitive error, a misjudgment of the matchup between what she knows and what her students know.

Our respect is such that we assume that children will try to fix their error and make better decisions next time.

I'm sorry, Shatara. I just did your job." With a single utterance, she apologized, reviewed the normality of making errors (and of apologizing when they are social ones), and implicitly recognized that Shatara (as everyone else) is a person who takes her responsibilities seriously.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly.

If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.

And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.

You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun—an error that proceeds from the ruler:

Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.