There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy.
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
There is no original truth, only original error.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.
Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.
How is an error possible in mathematics?
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.
