Quotes by Errors All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error. Paul Eluard errorsimaginationdream It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. Oscar Wilde vulgarerrorsamerica Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. Paul Halmos errorsmathscience Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. Paul Halmos trial-and-errorerrorsmath In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. Paul Keres second-chanceerrorschance Genius is the error in the system. Paul Klee errorsgenius If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God. Paul Krugman errorssimpleyears One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. Paul Nitze achievementerrorstrying Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed. Paul Russo impactblackerrors The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Paul Tillich errorsstonesanswers The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going. Paul Tournier errorsmistakemen The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell. Paul Vixie errorsrealplato Fragmentation is like classful addressing - an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed. Paul Vixie errorsshowsinteresting Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error. Paul Valery errorsmistakebelieve People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you. Paul Westerberg swingserrorsroots The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing. Paul Washer thoughtfulerrorsheart If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball. Pedro Martinez responsibleballserrors Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise. Percival Lowell errorsoppositeshands Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed. Peter Adamson philosophicalislamerrors You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it. Peter Costello errorscuttingjobs«6263646566676869707172»
