Top 205 Error Quotes

I never learned from a real trainer so it was trial and error. Mostly error.

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.

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.

I feel like, growing up, I haven‘t had a lot of room for error – I don’t have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I’m just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

I don’t think you’ll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we’re always in search of an upgrade.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

I always get frustrated when I hear someone talking about sweep arpeggios. Though there are plenty of licks and examples out there, no one has ever really broken down the mechanics of the technique. As a result, guitarists have had to figure them out by trial and error.

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.

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.

If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven’t taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

It is a true man‘s part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Starting a business is tricky. There’s a lot of trial and error, but create a plan, be strategic and write everything down.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about – the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government – I wasn’t left a lot of margin for error. It’s kept me driven.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.

As an 18-year-old, I learned a valuable lesson when I attempted to cut costs and pumped leaded gas into my first car – a car that required unleaded gas only. It did not take long before I realized the gravity of my error.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. ‘Cogito ergo sum‘ is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.

I don’t like creating software anymore. It’s too exact. It’s like karate; there’s no room for error.

I was so nervous when I moved out at 18. I had a couple thousand dollars to my name. I remember it was all trial and error for me. I had to figure it all out on my own.

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

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.

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 mom was the organized enforcer. When someone crossed the line, mom was pretty clear-minded about how to… correct that error. But my dad led by his example, so we never wanted to do anything wrong that would, that would upset him or disturb him.

The journey to the completion of ‘Year Of The Tiger‘ was very interesting and full of a lot of trial and error.

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.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

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.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

I experimented with every kind of class possible – yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing – but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

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.

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.

If you’re trying to prove something, you’ve got a weight on your chest. There’s no room for error.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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?

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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.

If you know the mother‘s genome and the father‘s genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

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.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

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.

When you’re starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

It’s a different style of golf; that stands out for sure when you come over to America. The style of play and the golf courses in America. Most golf courses in America either stretch your game, and test different elements of your game and the margins for error are smaller.

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women‘s magazines are what editors want and what their readers want – and thus are social indicators – when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They’re just advertising indicators.

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.

Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.

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.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it’s we humans who do the designing.

I will always forgive a technical error, but I will never forgive the wrong attitude.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don’t need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.

Something about the WSL is that the margins for error are very small. In the Premier League you can get away with losing a couple of games, but the women’s league is so short and the leaders tend to set the bar so high that if you lose a couple of games your title hopes are over.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one’s soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive – you are leaking.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia‘s economy.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can’t afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we’ve developed doesn’t make mistakes.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

You know, when my grandfather died, we were told that his estate was worth about $30 million. And it turns out it was closer to a billion. So that’s hardly a rounding error.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

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.

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they’ll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

Campuses should be places where students are able to make mistakes without fear of retribution. If there is no margin for error, it is impossible to receive a meaningful education.

Well, a general danger of punditry is that there’s very little incentive to change your position or admit error. If you reverse your position, the people who backed you before will be unhappy, but a lot of the people who now agree with you will still pillory you.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you’re into somebody‘s shop-window or front porch.

The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don’t tell the reader anything specific, like ‘Democrats at it Again.’

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.

I want to establish an error culture in friendlies. We can make mistakes, learn from them and correct them.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There’s no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Above all else, protect your brand. If you or your company doesn’t live up to your brand’s promise, own up to your error.

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

From a cognitive standpoint, I’m very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

It’s a slim margin of error in this league.

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

I’ve been around the block a few times. There is still a lot to learn but I’ve learned a lot in my life through error.

Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you’re meeting people and perceiving them as human beings and not as racial stereotypes and myths.

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can’t do the formulas – you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

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.

The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win… The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things – keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday – you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you’re actually out there on the mound and when you’re pitching, you can’t be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

When I said yes to host the ‘IPL,’ I wasn’t trying to fill in someone else’s shoes. I wasn’t trying to prove a point. I was only going to lend my style to the show, ask the right questions, get my facts right, keep the viewer informed and basically leave no room for error!

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

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.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn’t have prosecuted the war. We shouldn’t have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.

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.

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.

The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don’t know how to use it, so it’s kind of trial and error.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

One grave and fundamental Keynesian error is to persist in regarding the interest rate as a contract rate on loans instead of the price spreads between stages of production. The former, as we have seen, is only the reflection of the latter.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It’s a trial and error thing.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

Of all the years playing football, I have never felt like an undisputed starter – that would be an error.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

You cannot deliver to your maximum if you’re thinking ‘if I do an error, it might close a door to somewhere‘ or whatever.

Since Courbet, it’s been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone‘s error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral… our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.

It’s a big error to think that because you like somebody’s work, you’re going to like him.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

When you’re first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn’t work, and it’s a kind of trial and error thing.

Kids are smart: don’t underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don’t even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term – a century-long – error by Europe.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

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.

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.

I was taught you don’t tell your secrets to strangers – certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

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.

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.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off – those are not American ideals.

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment – in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes – outweighs the risk of error.

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.

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.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

I get this thing where people are like, ‘Man, you got to tell me what to do’ – like I have a cheat code to being successful. It’s hard work; it’s trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart.

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It’s not like football, where there’s a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you’re talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don’t retain muscle memory.

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.

I’ve never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent – far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that’s what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

Terrorists are people, too – they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I’m thinking of DeLillo’s contention in ‘Mao II’ that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who ‘alter the inner-life of the culture.’ I thought that was marvellous!

I went to Catholic schools my entire life and never had anything close to a cis heterosexual sexual education let alone a queer one. Everything I learned was trial and error or the Internet or ‘Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.’

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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.

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality – threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we’ve begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

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.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

For the Conservative Party to become the mouthpiece of energy monopolists is not only a political error; it is fundamentally at variance with the liberal economics they claim to espouse.

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox – a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

When Barack Obama was running for president, he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Obama believed that he could speak to allies and dictators directly and charm them into seeing the error of their ways.

Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It’ll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

Obscurity is the realm of 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.

I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that’s why I’m attracted to these kind of boats.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Every sport has its dangers. I’ve been pretty lucky, knock on wood. But I’ve had really confident, brave and smart horses growing up, which I think is important when you’re young. You are working with massive animals over big fences, and especially at this top level, there is really no room for error.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

I’m trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it’s been a process of trial and error.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They’re always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they’re looking for an error or to criticize. And it’s not conducive to good work.

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It’s been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

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.

‘Victory Lap,’ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Monza is special. It’s a high-speed track that pushes the car to the limit: it may look easy but the margin for error when braking for the chicanes is very small and you end up paying heavily for every mistake.