Quotes by Errors I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way. Mishka errorsgiving-upmistake The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. Moliere errorsgivingart Too great haste leads us to error. Moliere hasteerrors Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. Moliere hasteerrorsliterature The smallest errors are always the best. Moliere smallesterrors More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior. Morris L. Ernst indecisionerrorsbehavior He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own. Morris West reformerrorsmen Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree? Mortimer Adler errorsjudgingschool Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors! Muhammad errorsinspirationalfall Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. Murray Rothbard coppunishmenterrors Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. Nancy Friday spontaneousfailingerrors One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. Nassau William Senior errorsgovernmentwould-be If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason. Nassim Nicholas Taleb doctorserrorsmean Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part. Nassim Nicholas Taleb failureerrorspride Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. Nassim Nicholas Taleb investingerrorstwo You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system. Nassim Nicholas Taleb benefitserrorsgovernment Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure. Nassim Nicholas Taleb errorsmathamerica For the robust, an error is information. Nassim Nicholas Taleb robustinformationerrors He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any. Nassim Nicholas Taleb plentyerrorsmade I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill. Nassim Nicholas Taleb errorsskillspeople«5859606162636465666768»
