(1240 quotes found)
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all”
Charles Babbage
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”
William Blake
“My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event.”
Don Delillo
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
Robert Burton
“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”
Isaac Asimov
“The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
