Quotes of: Error Keyword

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Gideon Welles

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.

Jon Porter

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Alvin Toffler

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

Vilfredo Pareto

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

William Jennings Bryan

Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which co...

Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Giacomo Casanova

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Publilius Syrus

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

All for Love

Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.

Shaping the dream

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

Shaping the dream

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Siddhartha

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

Summer Knight

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Giraldus Cambrensis

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Viswanathan Anand