Quotes on Errors

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Author: Charles Babbage

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Author: Georges Bidault

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Author: Paul Brown

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Author: Democritus

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Author: Ulysses Grant

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Author: Thomas Huxley

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Author: Thomas Huxley

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Author: Titus Livius

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Author: Henry Longfellow

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Author: Trofim Lysenko

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Author: Bryant McGill

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Author: Errol Morris

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Author: J. Oppenheimer

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Author: Thomas Paine

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Author: Norman Peale

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.

Author: Jon Postel

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Author: Jim Rohn

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Author: Michael Shermer

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Author: Publilius Syrus

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Author: Steven Weinberg

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Author: Francis Wright