Quotes About Error

If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

If anybody shall reprove me, and shall make it apparent unto me, that in any either opinion or action of mine I do err, I will most gladly retract. For it is the truth that I seek after, by which I am sure that never any man was hurt; and as sure, that he is hurt that continueth in any error, or ignorance whatsoever.

It is, in other words, not objects and events but the interpretations we place on them that are the problem. Our duty is therefore to exercise stringent control over the faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn't a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore the human element in them – that is, their voices – you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Last time I called shotgun we had rented a limo, so I messed up!

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Obviously I was mistaken.

The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me the error bred in the bone of man. For there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, there are just one-and-only moments.

What was humility unless one possessed the courage to admit error, ignorance and futility, the strength to go back and begin again?

orr we find a typo in a book.

An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.

Youth is a circumstance that time corrects, and error teaches us to err again along a different vector.

the Hindu did not think in terms of good and evil. 'Evil has reference to the distance which good has to traverse. Ugliness is halfway to beauty. Error is a stage on the road to truth.

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.