Zitat des Tages über Error:
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about - and I think there are some writers who do that - but that hasn't happened to me. I do think it's dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error.
To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
No one who lives in error is free.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
The start is crucial, really, but the entire race is crucial. There is not any room for error. If there is one bad stroke, you regularly lose the race.
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
