Quotes About Error

How came the people to err? How happens it that, when seeking liberty and equality, they fell back into privilege and slavery? Always through copying the ancient régime.

If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

Peccant, qvia nihil peccant.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Modernism is an error which is still making its appearance under various new guises, wholly inconsistent with any genuine religious expression. It is surely an attempt on the part of secular philosophies and secular trends to vitiate the true teaching and discipline of the Church of Christ.

Evolution is cut-and-try.

Kan baik belum tentu benar juga belum tentu tepat. Malah bisa salah pada waktu dan tempat yang tidak cocok.

Overconfidence that the other side will give you what you want can be a havoc negotiation error.

PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

A minimal error at the start leads to a wide divergence in the distance

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

The entire cerebral mechanism can be reproduced mechanically. So much the better, as this will show the most obtuse of us where the error lies. But when we want to go beyond academic know-how—that sclerosis of the spirit—to fertile thought, the cerebral mechanism is no longer adequate.

When we express our thought in words, the medium is not found easily. There must be a process of translation, which is often inexact, and then we fall into error. But

Si tu fermes la porte à toutes les erreurs, la vérité restera dehors

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.

Blame me for having to type the backslash in DOS.

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

Dyer was held guilty of 'a grave error of judgment', the report offered weak recommendations and exonerated O'Dwyer.