Quotes About Error

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

In order to fulfil its role in guarding the purity of its membership, the church must have a doctrinal standard, and that standard must be published openly, for men have a right to know by what particulars they will be judged. To require the church to exercise discipline against doctrinal error without a published confession of faith is to require it to make bricks without straw.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

Ma vie est un film doublé, mal monté, mal interprété, mal ajusté, une erreur en somme.

Ce manquement des femmes à elles-mêmes par elles-mêmes opéré m'apparaissait toujours comme une erreur.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Nuestro gran error está en tratar de obtener de cada uno en particular las virtudes que no posee, descuidando cultivar aquellas que posee.

Qualsiasi felicità è un capolavoro: il minimo errore la falsa, la minima esitazione la incrina, la minima grossolanità la deturpa, la minima insulsaggine la degrada.

He'd refused to sack Honey Monster Shauna after she'd mistakenly included an extra zero in Gaelic Knitting and people ended up knitting christening shawls that were seventeen feet long instead of three.

Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.

So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve human intention.

Let me say first of all that the grace of God is sufficient to any transgression, and that to judge is wrong, the origin and essence of much error and cruelty.

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

Reconocer ese margen de error en nosotros y de acierto en los demás es creer que discutiendo, dialogando —coexistiendo— hay más posibilidades de identificar el error y la verdad que mediante la imposición de un pensamiento oficial único, al que todos deben suscribir so pena de castigo o descrédito.

Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.

Bir ak?l ça??n?n kâfirliÄŸi. DoÄŸruyu görür ve onaylar, ama yanl??? yapar?m.

I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion.

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.