Quotes About Error

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends

these leaders were promoting was a twisted version of truth. It was error packaged with elements of truth and then stealthily posed to believers in the guise of authenticity to make it more appetizing.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion

To err is human, to purr is feline.

Error handling is important, but if it obscures logic, it's wrong.

Encapsulation is broken because all functions in the path of a throw must know about details of that low-level exception. Given that the purpose of exceptions is to allow you to handle errors at a distance, it is a shame that checked exceptions break encapsulation in this way.

As you mature in your profession, your error rate should rapidly decrease towards the asymptote of zero.

La causa más común de los errores humanos —escribió más tarde el cardenal de Retz— es temer demasiado el peligro presente y no lo suficiente el peligro remoto.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.

Man was born in sin. He struggled. He erred. He fell.

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero

It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.

The amygdala also helps mediate both innate and learned fear.18 The core of innate fear (aka a phobia) is that you don't have to learn by trial and error that something is aversive. For example, a rat born in a lab, who has interacted only with other rats and grad students, instinctually fears and avoids the smell of cats.

Learning by making mistakes through trial and error is more and more important. Book learning is proving to be less valuable in the real world.

Ä°ÅŸte senin yanl???n da burada, diye kar??l?k verirdi babam - çünkü Foro Scientiae (bilim alan?)'de CÄ°NAYET diye bir ÅŸey yoktur, yaln?zca ÖLÜM vvard?r kardeÅŸim.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.