Error Quotes - page 8

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. (Paul de Man)
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort. View quote
Gene Kranz
Humans have a 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes. View quote
Walter O'Brien
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. View quote
Charlotte Joko Beck
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. View quote
Eric Sevareid
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! View quote
Anna Garlin Spencer
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. View quote
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
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. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. View quote
Christine Baranski
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy. (Carlos Mesa)
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. View quote
Dale E. Turner
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. View quote
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. View quote
George Ryan
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. View quote
George Gillespie
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. View quote
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty. View quote
Howard Staunton
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. View quote
James Smithson
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. View quote
Keith Henson
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. (Levon Helm)
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. View quote
Michael Ledeen
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' View quote
Nicholas Jarecki
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. View quote
Orson F. Whitney
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. View quote
Paul Nitze