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Quotes About Error

Bosheit ist bloß eine Art Ungeschicklichkeit.
~ Bertolt Brecht
La gente che soffre mi annoia, la sfortuna generalmente è dovuta a un errore di calcolo » e « quando ci si trova davanti un ostacolo, la linea più breve tra due punti può essere una linea curva ».
~ Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
~ Bertolt Brecht
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
~ Berton Averre
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
~ Bertrand Russell
Use Error is defined as a "user action or lack of user action while using the medical device that leads to a different result than that intended by the manufacturer or expected by the user
~ Beverly White
Reaction to error almost always creates another error.
~ Bill Johnson
There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
~ James Garner
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
~ Alvin Dark
Faute. « C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute. » (Talleyrand.) « Il n'y a plus une seule faute à commettre. » (Thiers.) Ces deux phrases doivent être articulées avec profondeur.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
~ H.L. Mencken
Per ogni problema complesso vi è una soluzione semplice. Ed è sempre sbagliata
~ H.L. Mencken
In short, man was often just plain stupid.
~ Harlan Coben
The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know. But
~ Harlan Coben
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
~ Rodrigo Rato
I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of the sequence of some letters. For example, I have just discovered that U and I should be together.
~ Patricia Barry
This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
~ David Salle
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
~ Nick Harkaway
Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
~ Lewis Carroll
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
~ George Darley
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.
~ Kathryn Kuhlman
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.
~ Averroes
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
~ Thomas Aquinas