If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
