Quotes About Error

Nature itself cannot err

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

Man errs as long as he strives.

Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

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

There is no idea so right that there is nothing wrong about it, And nothing so wrong that there isn't something right about it. ~William Blake~

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.