Quotes by Errors It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow. Lionel Trilling acceptedmetaphorerrors Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit. Linus Torvalds errorsmistakethinking It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. Livy easiererrorspast There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Lord Acton failingerrorsmen Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. Lord Acton standardsjudgmenterrors There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error. Lord Acton etcerrorsmen You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. Lou Brock errorsbaseballsports Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. Louis Aragon black-and-whiteerrorsmeaningful There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Louis Aragon strangeerrorsflower There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there. Louis Aragon errorsgardenflower Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. Louis Aragon errorsmenideas Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. Louis Aragon errorstruthmay Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. Lord Chesterfield honestfailureerrors It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume. Louis D. Brandeis errorspoliticswisdom When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely. Louis van Gaal errorsnightthinking No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid. Louis Pasteur errorsparentworld As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts. Louis Pasteur errorssciencelong Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice. Lord Chesterfield errorsgovernmentignorance The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes. Lucian Leape punishmenterrorsmistake The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. Luc de Clapiers cautiousnesserrorssuffering«4950515253545556575859»
