Errors Quotes

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

Truth, Made, Cannot

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

May, Truths, Harmful

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

May, Spirit, Value

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume

Religion, Philosophy, Dangerous

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May, Sometimes, Learn

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
Charles Babbage

Less, Using, Data

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld

Best, Help, Give

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

Judgment, Failures, Intent

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
Tom Stoppard

Great, Black, Comedy

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie

Truth, Down, Hurry

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
William Law

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Democritus

Others, Destroy

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.
Jimmy Carter

Live, Everything, President

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet

Happiness, Great, Ruined

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

Night, Between, Trials

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

Cannot, Her, She

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes

Power, May, Ideas

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

Children, Royal, Economists

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

Great, Men, Art

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Human, Mistake, Religions

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
Colin Firth

Good, Real, Wrong

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Barbra Streisand

Truth, Interested, Yes

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Henry Hazlitt

Past, Fact, Ideas

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
Jean Rostand

Beautiful, Mind, Human

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Titus Livius

Past, Criticize, Correct

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound

Truth, Before, Point

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.
Jeffrey Kluger

Special, Wrong, Hold

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard Baruch

Life, Thought, Whatever

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