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Quotes About Error

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The most embarrassing thing a human being can experience is when they spam a sentence and accidently say ''v'' whilst attempting to paste the sentance.
~ Alexis Loera
Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.
~ Alfonso de Cartagena
Uma vez já caí na armadilha de uma palavra, tive de pagar um preço amargo...
~ Alfred Doblin
Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.
~ Ravi Shastri
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
~ Rene Descartes
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.
~ Ron Atkinson
Every player makes mistakes; every goalkeeper makes mistakes. Every manager does, every broadcaster - every person in life makes mistakes. But for goalkeepers, often when they make a mistake, it leads to a goal.
~ Peter Schmeichel
The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.
~ Jim Otto
I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
~ Dan Webster
To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
~ Donald Norman
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
~ Florence King
I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
~ Joe Cornish
The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.
~ Fred DeLuca
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
~ Rene Descartes
Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.
~ Rene Guenon
[A 404 page] is the feeling of a broken relationship.
~ Renny Gleeson
The eyes were the result of an error on the assembly line. They had been intended for a shark and someone got careless.
~ Rex Stout
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
~ Richard Buckminster Fuller
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
~ Richard Henry Pratt
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.
~ Richard Hofstadter
A simple, five-command loop expands into a beautiful segmented structure of fifty lines. Little portions of program detach into reusable parts. Neelay's father hooks up a cassette tape player, for easy reloading of their hours of work in mere minutes. But the volume button must be set just right, or everything explodes with a read error.
~ Richard Powers