Quotes About Error

but it cannot be a mistake to have cared...it cannot be an error to have tried....it cannot be incorrect to have loved.

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

The Bible is the only book that hangs its entire credibility on its ability to write history in advance, without error.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

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Men and your hunts," Lilith went on, addressing, it seemed, some larger error in the Duke's sex. "If you hadn't been out killing healthy stags and boars in the first place, you could have married and lived and loved. But"—she shrugged—"we do as our instincts dictate, yes? And yours brought you here. To the very edge of your own grave.

I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world;

Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world; a world which seems not a bad example of amateur craftsmanship, but is in reality calamity, horror, madness, error—and look, the curio slays the tourist, the gigantic carved bear brings its wooden mallet down upon me.

Me da vergüenza tener miedo, pero estoy desesperadamente asustado, el error corre a través de mí con siniestro rugido, como un torrente; y mi cuerpo vibra como un puente sobre una cascada, y es tanto el ruido que necesito gritar para escucharme.

Mortal frailty, greed, and error, know no boundary lines. The explosives of war do not care whose hands fashion them. Certainly, both Marxists and Christians can be cruel. Would that Christ came back to save us all. We do not know how to save ourselves.

The great error has been to mistake the darkness for damnation, to surrender to immobility or worse, to try to retrace our steps backward to a safety that has ceased to exist or never existed.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I was an asshole. Stupid. I got caught off guard

This error might have been intentional, to disguise the Spice Islands' location from outsiders

Magellan's conception of the world he planned to explore was fatally inaccurate.

This was nearly the same mistake that Columbus had made over and over

The great error of the Catholic Church, the Protestant, Christian and Evangelical churches is that they preach a Christos devoid of his consort: Sophia.

Afailure is the misbehavior of the program, resulting from the program encountering a fault. Failures occur