Quotes by Errors There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways. Taika Waititi sawserrorsway So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity. Tacitus errorseventsencouragement I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. Sylvia Plath gorgeouserrorsflesh We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth Swami Vivekananda progresserrors Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error. Tasha Tudor errorsmenthinking No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character. Swami Vivekananda errorshumanitycharacter It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.' Ted Olson errorswould-belaw You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. Teri Garr errorsgoalwisdom We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one. Swami Vivekananda tinyerrorstrouble Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot. Terry Pratchett discworldcucumberserrors Custom without truth is error grown old. Tertullian customstruth-iserrors Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry. Tertullian errorsreligiousidols If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering. Tertullian errorsreligiouschristian The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent. Theodor Adorno errorsintelligentstupid It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth. Swami Vivekananda errorssoulperfection Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone. Terry Pratchett errorssciencebelieve The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority. Theodor Adorno derivativesdivision-of-laborerrors The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. Thomas Aquinas errorskindnessmen The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. Theodore Roosevelt errorsmenfall A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me." Thomas Beecham soon-enougherrorsstars«7677787980818283848586»
