Quotes About Error

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

I call him happy who still hopes to rise To the surface in this sea of error. The very things we don't know, we could use And what we do know we have no use for.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

George the ThirdOught never to have occurred.One can only wonderAt so grotesque a blunder.

Organizational analyses that show separate boxes for "culture" and "strategy" are making a fundamental conceptual error. Strategy is an integral part of the culture.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.

I thought I was wrong once, but I found out later that I was mistaken. (Seldom Seen Smith)

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep.

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

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How come wrong numbers are never busy?