Quotes by Errors It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. John Kenneth Galbraith investingerrorsbelieve Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe distrusttrusterrors It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good. John Lancaster Spalding errorscausescommon Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. John Kenneth Galbraith optimismstupidityerrors Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe demanderrorssimple Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. John Locke errorsmistakegiving I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. John Maeda creatingerrorsrooms Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats experienceerrorsform Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. John Kenneth Galbraith errorsgivingpast The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors. John Medina errorstasksbrain Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors. John Medina errorstasksmatter The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door. John Kenneth Galbraith errorsdoorsmen He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults and errors of fallen man, so that God may be forbearing towards your own. John of Kronstadt errorschristianmen 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 errorstiesideas Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error. John Locke mediocrityerrorskindness There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe rationalerrorsmen A man's errors are what make him amiable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe amiableerrorsmen Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. John Ralston Saul errorsworldthinking Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libraryerrorsmind The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe errorsmistakesuccess«4142434445464748495051»
