Quotes About Error

When things go wrong, the attending is expected to take full responsibility. It

They'd not only nearly killed the man but also failed to recognize how.

Operations like that lap chole have taught me how easily error can occur, but they've also showed me something else: effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you." .

feared that the autopsy would uncover an error.

I didn't see much likelihood that an error would be found. Today

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

What we hold to be the result of a malign intervention could only make sense as an ordinary miscalculation, as an error, but now we find ourselves in the realm of nonexistent theologies—that is, theologies of fallible gods.

what is the mother of carelessness if not assumption?

For, I said, a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.

HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!

Sometimes we just get it wrong.

A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.

I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.

Some people are just wrong every time they open their mouths.

If evolution gave men and women different sets of desires and skills, for example, that would be an obstacle to achieving gender equality in many professions. If nativism could be used to justify existing power structures, then nativism must be wrong. (Again, this is a logical error, but this is the way righteous minds work.)

They need society's permission to experiment and grow and err: permission which teens and twentysomethings take for granted, but which adults in maturity often need just as much.

Kant had disproved the ontological argument. Hume had shown that for any supposed miracle, the evidence that it had not happened was always greater than the evidence that it had. Darwin had shown the error in the 'argument from design'.

To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up.

To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up.

you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.

Quien experimenta amor experimenta a Dios. Cuando el intelecto esta iluminado por el amor se capta el sentido profundo de las cosas, se recibe el conocimiento de Dios y se es sabio, pero cuando no hay amor, ese conocimiento se esfuma, no queda archivado en la memoria porque no proviene del intelecto. El conocimiento de Dios solo al amor se revela, y solo ante la presencia del amor se revive. Por eso, quienes casi no se acercan al amor cometen tantos errores, pobres…

Se em suas idéias baseadas na opinião, você apressadamente afirmar como verdadeiro tudo o que aguarda confirmação e o que não espera confirmação, não escapará ao erro, pois estará mantendo total ambiguidade sempre que se tratar de julgar entre a opinião certa e a errada.