Error Quotes

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
John Fogerty

Mind, Trying, Find

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
Josiah Royce

Men, Find, Create

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman

Before, Wiser, Score

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze

Human, Trying, Dangerous

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Thomas Reid

Doubt, May, Philosophy

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Henry St. John

Truth, Lies, Within

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.
Lee Scott

Wrong, Cost, Harm

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.
Howard Staunton

Game, Necessary, Committed

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
Rodrigo Rato

Try, Trade, Correct

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Louis Aragon

Strange, Reason, Flowers

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
Norman Lamm

Government, Political, Human

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.
Ferdinand Mount

Great, Wrong, Tell

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
Cheryl Strayed

Work, Writing, Hard

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Roger von Oech

Idea, Might, Stone

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Sarah Fielding

Confusion, Lives, Desire

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
C. Everett Koop

Vision, Illness, Hearing

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Robert Jackson

Government, Keep, Falling

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Research, Greater, Material

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.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Technology, Long, Writing

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

Time, Truth, Same

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
John Sebastian

Real, Started, Artists

If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!
Alexandra Guarnaschelli

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Francis Wright

Religion, Human, Once

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
Ed Balls

Change, War, Law

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Michael Ledeen

God, History, Human

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
George Ryan

Death, Support, Penalty

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
Robbie Coltraine

Movies, Free, Big

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
Carlos Mesa

Process, Economy, Perhaps

It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
John Scofield

Home, Guitar, Another

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
Stand Watie

Bad, Intention, Commit

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