Quotes with errors

  • Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
  • Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
  • Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
  • They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
  • An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
  • Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Publilius Syrus From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anatole France I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • James Joyce A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Andrew V. Mason Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
    Andrew V. Mason
    American surgeon and writer (0 - 2007)
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  • Franz Kafka All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Steven Weinberg An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
    Steven Weinberg
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bryant H. McGill An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Bancroft Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Bill Murray Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
    Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) Preface
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • George Eliot Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Jonathan Miller Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • John Dryden Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Jim Rohn Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jim Rohn Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jean Rostand Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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