Quotes About Error

You'll pick the wrong one, knowing you...He did pick the wrong one.

Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture. And

Believe truth! Shun error!—these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life. We may regard the chase for truth as paramount, and the avoidance of error as secondary; or we may, on the other hand, treat the avoidance of error as more imperative, and let truth take its chance.

If we claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp. Pretty surely it will be more than we could have had, if we were unconscious of our liability to err.

If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.

It's not an intellectual mistake.

A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves "completely certain" about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. When a group of students made estimates that they believed had only a 1% chance of being wrong, they were actually wrong 27% of the time.

To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.

the purpose of the finally block is to contain cleanup code that should always be executed, the compiler will flag an error if you place a return statement inside a finally block. An

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

Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.

If you were the first of three siblings, then you were going to make a big mistake, and that was that.

Then let the Son of God awaken from his sleep, and opening his holy eyes return again to bless the world he made. In error it began. But it will end in the reflection of his holiness. And he will sleep no more and dream of death.

para el Espíritu Santo el pecado no es otra cosa que un error que necesita corrección,

By the sole fact of being accomplished, reality casts its shadow behind it into the indefinitely distant past: it thus seems to have been pre-existent to its own realization, in the form of a possible. From this results an error which vitiates our conception of the past; from this arises our claim to anticipate the future on every occasion

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

There is an inherent and absolute authority in all truth, which makes it, in the end, unconquerable and victorious. The truth is mighty, and will prevail. What is founded on error, has rottenness for its corner-stone; and although it may temporarily be upheld by foreign aid, yet, deserted by its supporters, it always finally tumbles to the ground.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.