Best 109 quotes in «error quotes» category

Sect and error are synonymous.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

She was reading Francis Godwin's Man in the Moone--its man was borne into space in a carriage drawn by swans--when she heard the sound of wheels upon the gravel. Two boxes from Martin & Allestyre were set down on the drive. 'My modest closet plays,' she said. She nearly ran down the stairs--for the recovery of her wayward crates that spring and the preparation of her plays for publication had rekindled inside Margaret a flame she'd feared had gone out. ... But now, in turning the pages, she grew concerned and then incensed: 'reins' where she had written 'veins,' 'exterior' when she had clearly meant 'interior.' The sun went down. The room grew dim. ... 'Before the printer ruined it,' she cried, 'my book was good!' 'Could it be,' he asked, soaking his bread in {lamb's} blood, 'that you were yourself the cause of this misfortune?

Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.

the Catch-22 of wrongology: in order to get rid of error, we would already need to be infallible.

The biggest mistake of a military man is to say that he is 'safe', as much as the biggest mistake of a police insider is to say that he is 'in control'. Both aren’t, never. Usually they say something like: 'it's only this time' or, 'I've done this before, nothing will happen to me'. Those sentences mean failure. Even Schwarzenegger found himself, later in his life, dealing with this brief thought. Seen a military man in your neighborhood? Tell him: write.

Success sits on a mountain of mistakes

The electrical ring main that is widely used in the United Kingdom (UK) to wire electrical outlets is by definition a wiring error, as it permits unbalanced currents to flow in the electrical cables.

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

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

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

The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It won’t, darlin’, it won’t.

There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing.

The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a group unique to the first century. Pharisaism is a poisonous weed that grows in every garden of orthodox religion. Pharisaism is every bit the threat to the orthodox today that it was then.

The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical items plugged into the faulty electrical circuit.

The wrong step becomes the right step once you take it.

Too often truth is doubted, while the error is believed.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying but in the end it is static a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling and sometimes even dangerous but in the end it is a journey and a story. Who really wants to stay at home and be right when you can don your armor spring up on your steed and go forth to explore the world True you might get lost along get stranded in a swamp have a scare at the edge of a cliff thieves might steal your gold brigands might imprison you in a cave sorcerers might turn you into a toad but what of what To fuck up is to find adventure: it is in the spirit that this book is written.

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.

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane

To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?" "More than possible. Likely.

Tu juventud no es un error, tu falta de responsabilidad sí.

—Una belleza no intencional. Sí. También podría decirse: la belleza como error. Antes de que la belleza desaparezca por completo del mundo, existirá aún durante un tiempo como error. La belleza como error es la última fase de la historia de la belleza.

Use intelligence for your opponents, shrewdness for your enemies, commonsense for your acquaintances, and resourcefulness for your friends. When your opponents are making a mistake, do not disturb them. When your enemies are making an error, do not caution them. When your allies are making a mistake, restrain them.

Vivir: especializarse en el error. Burlarse de las verdades indubitadas, no hacer caso de lo absoluto, tomar a broma la muerte y transformar lo infinito en azar

We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.

We error in our ways for lack of knowledge of the Truth of God.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong

What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to o'erpeer.

When the senses err, it's the senses that find out.

Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error

¿Y cómo consigues crear nada si destruyes y sofocas cualquier imprevisto? La creación nace de un rayo, de un error respecto al curso habitual de las cosas. No hacemos nada bien hasta que dejamos de pensar en el modo de hacerlo.

You are likely to keep repeating the same mistake all over again if you do not agree it’s a mistake.

Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...

Yes, I'm a pessimistic, cynical, grumpy old git. You only get that way through great trial and error.

Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.

You live in a world where people remember your error far more than the testimony after. So you gotta be careful with your record.

Always the wrong conclusions. What would be the right ones?

Alguien escribió una vez: "Somos todos niños en un vasto jardín de infantes, procurando formar el nombre de Dios con letras de un rompecabezas que está equivocado".

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world. It is the only way you can get to some place you’ve never been before. I try to make as many as I can. Making a mistake is the only way that you can grow.

And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd be as good, but I wouldn't, if I could. For the few that help deserve, have no need, or not the nerve, help from strangers to accept, plus from mine a few have wept. Wept from joy, or from despair, or just from my vengeful stare. Ways I have, to look at stupid, make them see I am not Cupid. Make them see they are in error, for of truth I am a bearer. Most decide I'm just a bear, mauling at them, - like I care.

Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors; enjoy a bright future!‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.