Quotes About Error

Saying what people failed to do has no role in understanding 'human error.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a giant mistake.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Many… have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

An old and gray-headed error.

Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.

Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.

I made a mistake.

What?" That's when I knew how wrong I'd been.

When you fuck up, shit gets real.

But there exists not one man who never errs. We would be gods. And gods didn't apologize. Men did.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them

l'Histoire a plus d'imagination que les hommes ? le Diable plus que l'Histoire ? et il n'est pas du genre, le Diable, à commettre l'erreur d'amateur de nous resservir un génocide en tous points semblable à l'étalon du genre ? (ch. 57 La Shoah au coeur et dans la tête)

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

In spite of the fundamental importance of economic facts in determining politics and beliefs of an age or nation, I do not think that non-economic factors can be neglected without risks of error which may be fatal in practice.

Aristóteles podia ter evitado o erro de pensar que as mulheres têm menos dentes do que os homens simplesmente pedindo à Sra. Aristóteles que abrisse a boca enquanto os contava. Não o fez porque estava convencido de que sabia. Pensar que sabemos algo quando na verdade não sabemos é um erro fatal, a que todos somos vulneráveis.

Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

William James used to preach the "will to believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will to doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.

A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.

Love was some kind of of chemical error.