Errors Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Art, Fall, Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Names, Imperfection, Raised

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies”, p.461

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• Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Fool

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• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Mistake, Philosophical

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• If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Giving, Soul

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Opportunity, Practice

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• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Running, Baseball, Home

  "Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Hedge Fund Has A Brand New iPad App" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 14, 2012.

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• This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

  Elmer Davis

  Men, Thinking, People

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

  Democritus

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• I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

  Rene Descartes

  Mind, Weak, Amazed

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Car, Decision

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sincerity, Earnest, Contrary

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

  Brian Eno

  Advice, Honor, Intention

  "Hey, what's that sound: Oblique Strategies" by David McNamee, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.

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• No one who lives in error is free.

  Euripides

  Freedom

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• 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

  Real, People, Choices

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• Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Water, Literature

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

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• Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Goal, Infidelity

  "Pope Francis’ Atheist Letter Says ‘God’s Mercy Has No Limits’" by Alessandro Speciale, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Promise, Pope

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• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Mistake, Humorous

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Stronger, Dirt

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• You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

  Teri Garr

  Wisdom, Goal, Trial And Error

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• 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

  History, Vomiting, Mud

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• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Long, Age

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• Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

  Martin Gore

  Mind, Trial And Error, Trials

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• Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

  William Hague

  Europe, Turkeys, Long

  "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley and Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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