Quotes About Error

human error is not our cause of troubles; instead, human error is a consequence of the design of the tools that we gave them.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

For whan a man hath over-greet a wit,Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.

The error of a lively rake lies in his passions, and may be reformed: but the dry rogue, who sets up for judgment, is incorrigible.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

People are human. They make mistakes." "They can make mistakes on someone else's dime." Mom's face held no mercy.

Io non trovo mai nessuna difficoltà ad ammettere di essermi sbagliato perché sono convinto che l'infallibilità sia un'esclusiva di Dio e degli imbecilli.

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

In ogni secolo gli esseri umani hanno pensato di aver capito definitivamente l'Universo e, in ogni secolo, si è capito che avevano sbagliato. Da ciò segue che l'unica cosa che possiamo dire oggi sulle nostre conoscenze è che sono sbagliate.

Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

Man errs as long as he struggles.

All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

In a great mistake.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.