Errors Quotes - Page 54

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence? That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights, which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision? Those, who know any thing of human nature, will not hesitate to answer these questions in the affirmative.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.