Quotes by Errors Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them Karen Marie Moning correctingerrorsrace Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. Kathryn Kuhlman exclusionerrorsmatter Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world. Kathryn Schulz errorsmeanideas Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that? Kathryn Schulz errorsintellectualthinking Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human. Kathryn Schulz errorsnicepeople Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes. Kathryn Schulz dataerrorsmistake Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. Keith Henson trial-and-errorerrorschildren Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my fault which is that a lot of things are taught to beginners which you can cast off later on. Keith Johnstone beginnerserrorsthinking I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Kelly Miller errorstakenjustice 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 smarterrorsbelieve Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. Kenneth Appel machineserrorsscience The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country. Keshub Chandra Sen errorsheartcountry Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error. Kevin Allen riskerrorssurvival While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself. Kevin Shelley errorsregretlaw Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. Khalil Gibran errorseyeheart I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors. King James I errorsmotherwar Error has never approached my spirit. Klemens von Metternich errorsspirithistory All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi. Konrad Lorenz errorsmenpeople But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. Kurt Gödel errorsemotiondoe Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice. Lajos Kossuth errorslawjustice«4647484950515253545556»
