Quotes About Error

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring--thus he erred himself.

Deniers are not the equivalents of flat-earth theorists, nor are they just plain loonies. Theirs is not a cognitive error that can be rectified by showing them documentation or evidence. They are, pure and simple, antisemites, and their agenda is to reinforce and spread the very antisemitism that produced the Holocaust. They can't be completely discounted.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

El separar las misiones de la iglesia es no entender la gran comisión. Las misiones son responsabilidad de la iglesia. La iglesia local envía misiones y esos misioneros deben buscar plantar iglesias locales. Es un error que los cristianos busquen ser misioneros sin primero estar sujetos a una iglesia local. Tristemente, hay muchos misioneros auto-nombrados quienes se rehúsan a someterse a la iglesia. Ellos desean el apoyo de las iglesias locales, pero no su supervisión.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Son," he said, "you monkeyed up.

On almost all of which counts he was in error, but since no one was ever likely to tell him so, there was no harm done.