Quotes About Error

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

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

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver

What a mess you've made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition—given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at least not easily.

People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong.