Quotes About Errors

Even we can get things wrong sometimes.

So often people read conspiracy into a thing when it's really a confluence of cock-ups and the wrong button being pressed at the wrong time, or the guest you wanted gets into the wrong taxi and doesn't show up.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.

That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors.