Quotes About Error

What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love

Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But at the same time it is this arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous units which give rise to a large proportion of human error.

It is not given to man to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

Pourquoi injuste ? Il ne nous est pas donné de savoir ce qui est juste ou injuste ! L'humanité s'est toujours trompée et se trompera toujours sur ce sujet.

Ma come si può vivere solo per se stessi?" domandò Pierre accalorandosi. "E tuo figlio, tua sorella, tuo padre?" "Ma loro sono pur sempre me stesso, loro non sono gli altri," rispose il principe Andrej. "Gli altri, invece, le prochain, come lo chiami tu, come lo chiama la principessina Mar'ja, sono la fonte principale dell'errore e del male.

Noticing other people's faults arises from dissatisfaction with ourselves. Often, in criticizing our neighbour, we fall into making the same error for which we have just criticized someone else. Those people who are not concerned about the salvation of their soul and who do not attempt to improve themselves can easily fall into temptation and be seduced into following the example of others. From Pious Thoughts

A huszadik század kezdetétÅ'l fogva rosszul megírt dráma volt.

The definition of truth is an endless, complex pursuit, and good men and women have suffered the pain of both controversy and error. Intellectual, emotional, and political roadblocks may slow up people like Cyril for a time. But their lives taken as a whole are monuments to honesty and courage.

La guerra di quelle che Montaigne chiamava congetture infuriava, la Francia ne era insanguinata. La congettura cattolica, la congettura protestante. Come Pessoa nella poesia sul Natale, Montaigne pensava che la verità né veniva né se ne andava: semplicemente mutava l'errore, mutavano gli errori.

The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error.

Mniej o prawdÄ™ przy tym chodzi, jak o ducha prawdy, nikt bowiem nie mo?e obieca?, ?e nie bÄ™dzie siÄ™ myliÅ', mo?e jednak przechowywa? ducha prawdy równie? w pomyÅ'kach, czyli nie wyrzeka? siÄ™ czujnej nieufnoÅ›ci do wÅ'asnych sÅ'ów.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Historical seen, said Alice, people have almost always have whrong when they have said that.

it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

Collective inquiry is less prone to error than is solitary inquiry, individualism in this case being an impediment to knowledge.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

As an 18-year-old, I learned a valuable lesson when I attempted to cut costs and pumped leaded gas into my first car - a car that required unleaded gas only. It did not take long before I realized the gravity of my error.

If you build software, every error message is marketing

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

I skim through the issue [of Elle] and reach the offending photo, a montage that ridicules rather than glorifies our idol. It is one of the mysteries of our trade. You work for weeks on a subject, it goes back and forth among the most skillful pairs of hands, and no one spots the glaring blunder that a neophyte would spot in a second.