Quotes About Error

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

It [success] is really by mistake.

If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.

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Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l'intero avvenire.

Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.

Twice – Once too often.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

Positive, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Preference, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

As pessoas eram fascinadas pelo fogo e repelidas pelo sofrimento humano, e não seria isso uma espécie de erro de projeto?

You paying good money?" "For what?" "Information, asshole. You was the one said it." "Depends on the information. But please, I had asshole legally dropped from my name. "That was a mistake.

By 1948, "to err is Truman" became a popular expression, and a Newsweek poll of fifty political pundits found that every one of them predicted his defeat. His 1948 Republican opponent was the popular Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who had been the party's nominee against Roosevelt four years before.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

If I could change anything about you, it would be a mistake.

The curiosity to know things which are too high for us, which are beyond our horizon, which are unfathomable precisely because of the weakness which makes the future so obscure to us, has led men into many such ludicrous methods and errors.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

[History is a] mixture of error and violence.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt