Quotes by Errors Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head Siegbert Tarrasch analysiserrorswhite If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error. Simon Greenleaf errorslawmen When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation. Simon Bolivar preservationerrorsignorance We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined, And with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you. Simon Singh errorslightyears Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion. Sigmund Freud errorsreligiousworld The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics. Simone Weil errorswarpeace Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss upon the development of economic thought is for the most part nothing but pure intellectual error. Sir John Richard Hicks errorsconfusionintellectual Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Simone Weil perspectiveerrorssometimes Truth is one, but error is manifold. Simone Weil truth-iserrorstruth To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system. Simone de Beauvoir abuseerrorsnames The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it. Smoky Joe Wood errorscitiesgames Truth burns up error. Sojourner Truth errorstruthlife Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. Solomon Asch errorsfactsthinking Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue. Sophia Lee virtuesourceerrors Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. Socrates deceptionerrorspeople There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment. Sophie Swetchine errorseyeviews Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. Sophie Swetchine errorsracemean To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved. Sophocles errorsevilcommon He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool. Spencer W. Kimball errorsstupidmistake To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin. Spencer W. Kimball diligenceerrorssin«7374757677787980818283»
