Quotes About Error

People can do great things, George. They can come up with noble, shining ideals. But people are also fallible human beings, and we know they made a terrible mistake. - Takekuma Norman Takei

If a mistake occurs with regularity, it might well become the norm. If enough people believe and propagate the error, it could become gospel.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

Men are men, they needs must err.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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 very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.

Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good you desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.

Two different cops, and both of them fucked up the case. What are they using to train them in Chicago—old videos of the Three Boobs?" "I think that's Stooges," Roarke murmured.

One thing was for sure: Her attacker had made a hell of a mistake when he'd picked her. The entire police force was going to be gunning for that fool when they found out who he was. And Butch had a big mouth.

The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.

Innovation is like looking for pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. You have to find a lot of pieces that don't match to find the one or two pieces that match.

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.