Quotes on Error

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Author: Louis Aragon

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Author: Hannah Arendt

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

Author: Michael Burgess

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Author: Edmund Burke

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Author: George Chapman

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Author: Luc Clapier

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Author: Rene Descartes

No one who lives in error is free.

Author: Euripides

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Author: John Galbraith

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Author: George Gillespie

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Author: William Godwin

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

Author: Arthur Guiterman

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Author: Jan Hartog

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Author: Levon Helm

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Author: Horace

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Author: Andrew Jackson

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

Author: David Keene

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Author: Billie King

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Author: James Madison

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Author: Moliere

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

Author: William Mulholland

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Author: Robert Musil

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Author: Paul Nitze

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Author: Donald Norman

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Author: Vilfredo Pareto

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Author: Alan Perlis

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Author: Henri Poincare

How is an error possible in mathematics?

Author: Henri Poincare

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Author: Rodrigo Rato

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

Author: Jake Roberts

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Author: Bertrand Russell

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Author: Lee Scott

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Author: Ayrton Senna

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

Author: Anna Spencer

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Author: Lewis Thomas

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Author: Bill Walsh

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Author: Stand Watie

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Author: Thomas Watson

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

Author: Warren Zevon