Quotes About Error

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

Didn't Shakespeare say something about 'every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up'? He knew his religious bigots.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

El error viene del engaño (decir mentiras)

Sorry. I seem to have caused a mess our last time around.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Jenny Casey, you've skewered the pooch this time.

Moreover, in the exercise of His sovereignty God never enforces the responsibility of the creature; and unless we keep both of these steadily in view, we not only become lopsided, but lapse into real error. The grace of God must not be magnified to the beclouding of His righteousness, nor His sovereignty pressed to the exclusion of human accountability.

Te suena la palabra error, camarada comisario? ¿Existe en tu vocabulario? Endurece el otro la mandíbula. Su mirada podría rajar de frío el cristal de las gafas. —El Partido nunca comete errores.

No se puede confiar en alguien que nunca cometió un error. Expone a otros a verse envueltos en el primero que cometa.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

All of us do foolish things, but the wiser realize what they do. The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. That failure is a common affliction of authority.

You've made a terrible mistake.

The folly of one man, is the fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors.

Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

My success rate is about 80 percent. Two of ten dishes won't work.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?