Quotes by Errors The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it. Harry Browne errorsgovernmentpeople The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program. Hayley Mills learningerrorsrunning To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven. Hazrat Inayat Khan errorsregretsorry It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. Heather Mills legserrorsmother Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. H. L. Mencken errorsliteratureart How is error possible in mathematics? Henri Poincare mathematicalmathematicserrors It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred. Gilbert K. Chesterton finalserrorshumans There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and grade each in its proper position along the line joining absolute truth and absolute error. Henry Augustus Rowland errorsperfectscience To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary. Henry A. Kissinger biblicalfateerrors It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. Friedrich Nietzsche errorstastebelieve It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena. Henri Poincare finalserrorsdifferences A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Henri Poincare latterproduceerrors Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. Henry Fielding errorsmaymen Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. Henri Frederic Amiel errorsatheistreal Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it. Friedrich Nietzsche errorsfightingevil 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 errorspastideas It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the platform than the honest men who try to show what is wrong with it. Henry Hazlitt errorsmenphilosophy It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species. Henry Fielding errorsperfectcharacter The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke thoughtfulerrorslong The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them. Henry Steele Commager freedom-of-speecherrorsmind«3031323334353637383940»
