Quotes About Error

The condemnation of an error is another error.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Thought is the parent. If error has crept in among the little thoughts, and the children have become disobedient and refractory, it is not the parent's fault. Nor must you blame the children either; they are young yet, and you must not expect too much of them.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

I think I underestimated you," Keane said. And there it was. The light bulb had come on in his head and he was staring at me. I'd messed up. Arrogance was always my worst enemy.

Every honest attempt to discover the truth and depict things faithfully is a struggle against one's own subjectivity and partiality, one's individual and class interests; one can seek to become aware of these as a source of error, while realizing that they can never be finally excluded.

What we should be comparing is not the existing market configuration with an ideal based on a simple model but the market process of error correction with the political process of error correction.

I computer sono inaffidabili, ma gli uomini ancora di più.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

There is always a case as a goalkeeper, if you make an error, it will lead to a goal.

Freak mistakes happen sometimes as a goalkeeper that if you make them, then it's always going to bite you.

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...

very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new tables of values and for a time took each of them to be eternal and unconditional...If one deducts the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted away humanity, humaneness, and 'human dignity'.

He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.

Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?

The history of moral feelings is the history of an error, an error called "responsibility", which in turn rests on an error called "freedom of the will".

One is in a state of hope because the basic physiological feeling is once again strong and rich; one trusts in God because the feeling of fullness and strength gives a sense of rest. Morality and religion belong entirely to the psychology of error: in every single case, cause and effect are confused; or truth is confused with the effects of believing something to be true; or a state of consciousness is confused with its physiological origins.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause:

HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness?