Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Error is always more busy than truth.
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.
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.
I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.
I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.
Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.
