Quotes of: Errors Keyword

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H. L. Mencken

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

George Chapman

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

James Buchan

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

Jim Clyburn

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

Donald Rumsfeld

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Barbara Kingsolver

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Christine Baranski

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Herbert Hoover

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

James Garner

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Lord Acton

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Charles K. Kao

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Georg Brandes

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Eric Sevareid

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Alexis Carrel

Mistakes and errors, destinations and journeys are all the same and are paid with pain.

Auliq Ice

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Donald Rumsfeld

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

Ulysses S. Grant

There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.

Voltaire