Errors Quotes - Page 9

• All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Evil, Advice

  6 Copy quote

• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  George Rodger

  Cutting, Self, Trial And Error

  11 Copy quote

• I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Feelings, Would Be, Too Much

  10 Copy quote

• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

  19 Copy quote

• Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Philosophy, Mistake, Book

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Sex, Gay, Opposites

  4 Copy quote

• He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

  Pope Leo I

  Endeavor

  19 Copy quote

• It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Acceptance, Done, World

  4 Copy quote

• Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Church

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wise, Opponents

  113 Copy quote

• The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Planning, Strategy, Process

  "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

  Jane Austen

  People, Feelings, Unhappy

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

  Ken Wilber

  Smart, Believe, Mind

  41 Copy quote

• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

  6 Copy quote

• The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Tendencies, Dangerous

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sound, Would Be, Bagpipes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.21, Friedrich Nietzsche

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

  George Sand

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Different

  6 Copy quote

• There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, "Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works."

  Anita Roddick

  Crazy, Believe, Journey

  6 Copy quote

• It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Oneself

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.53, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Ignorance, Doe, Common

  43 Copy quote

• Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

  Chico Xavier

  Thinking, Needs, Equilibrium

  7 Copy quote

• ... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Space, Effort, Add

  5 Copy quote

• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Rights, Gone Away

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Government, Effort

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.239, Regnery Publishing

  44 Copy quote

  Show source