Quotes About Error

In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist.

In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, a depression, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition.

your enemy when he's making a mistake.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

From the backseat of the pick-up stepped Dr. Marconi. I tried to imagine the conversation the three of them had on the way over, and my brain just spat out error messages.

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

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Nici inteligen?a, nici talentul, nici geniul nu l-au împiedicat vreodat? pe om s? se în?ele. Ba s-ar zice c?, din contr?, ele îl ajut? s? se cufunde ?i mai departe în ceea ce constituie profunzimea ?i sumbra str?lucire a r?t?cirii.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Între eroare È™i prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire È™i chiar o complicitate secret? pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înl?ture.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

If there is conflict between idea and actual, then the idea is in error.

She had to treat it like a tactical error, not a human tragedy, because she was not sure that his unfinished jigsaw of a brain understood sadness and loss.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin?

Then you made an expensive error.

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of the same type and grossness as to treat a cube as a surface because it has surface properties.

Someone had blundered.

We all know Aesop's fable of the dog who dropped a piece of meat to grasp at its reflection in the water. We must not, however, judge too severely of error. In the initial stages of mental progress, error in symbolic reference is the discipline which promotes imaginative freedom.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.