Error Proofing Quotes

It was a grave tactical error that Astrid had been so focused on collecting boys, when the girls in this town were more than twice as worthy. ~ Ingrid Paulson

You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. ~ Ramana Maharshi

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. ~ Janet Coleman

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. ~ Victor Hugo

We have not merely stumbled on truth in spite of error and illusion, which is odd, but because of error and illusion, which is even odder. ~ Arthur Balfour

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

How does she do it? She makes it sound like she is so cut up to be giving them this information, and it's all just bumph out of her head. She never told them ANYTHING. I don't think she's given them the right name of any airfield in Britain except Mainsend and Buscot, which of course were where she was stationed. They could have easily checked. It's all so close to truth, and so glib
her aircraft identification is rather good considering what a fuss she makes about it. It makes me think of the first day I met her, giving those directions in German. So cool and crisp, such authority
suddenly she really was a radio operator, a German radio operator, she was so good at faking it. Or when I told her to be Jamie, how she just suddenly turned into Jamie.
This confession of hers is rotten with error ... ~ Elizabeth Wein

... the error in the lie that is the truth. ~ Anthony Marra

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs. ~ Samuel Warren Carey

What impressess me is that one bug... error... glitch.... just ruin the perfection of myself. ~ Deyth Banger

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' ~ Nicholas Jarecki

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ~ Voltaire

A simple mistake…can tell me what you're not, or it can remind me of why I should love you." (404 Error=Page Not Found) ~ Renny Gleeson

we have something between us, him and me. the the truth? everybody has it. that's our curse and our blessing. that's our trial and our error and our it. ~ John Green

If Flynn hadn't known his older brother for the addicted, lying sack of shit he was, he might have believed the pain he saw in that gaze, might have trusted that Connor had finally seen the error of his ways and was going to change his life and step out of their father's shadow. But Connor usually only had an epiphany if it got him laid, increased his bank balance, or severely pissed off Rupert. ~ M.A. Grant

He saw nothing but misfortune
human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect, and sometimes bad things happened. ~ Kaya McLaren

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. ~ David Mitchell

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. ~ Charles Darwin

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof. ~ David Hilbert

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Strive to see with the inner eye, the heart. It sees the reality not subject to emotional or personal error; it sees the essence. Intuition then is the most important quality to develop. ~ Muata Ashby

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means. ~ Richard Wagner

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ~ William Godwin

Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends. ~ Bob Ross

If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. ~ James A. Garfield

The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression and domination, must be treasured and preserved, not as means of freezing thought and conception in some new mold but as basis for understanding of the social reality and committed work to change it. There is no reason to suppose that history is at an end, that the current structures of authority and domination are graven in stone. It would also be great error to underestimate the power of social forces that will fight to maintain power and privilege. ~ Noam Chomsky

With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement ~ Lauren DeStefano

At least part of the reason I am a SNOOT is that for years my mom brainwashed us in all sort of subtle ways. Here's an example. Family suppers often involved a game: if one of us children made a usage error, Mom would pretend to have a coughing fit that would go on and on until the relevant child had identified the relevant error and corrected it. It was all very self-ironic and lighthearted; but still, looking back, it seems a bit excessive to pretend that your small child is actually denying you oxygen by speaking incorrectly. ~ David Foster Wallace

'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is happening, when in fact something rare or infrequent is happening.' ~ Marcello Truzzi