The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

We must beware of falling into the fatally common error of supposing that what we see is all there is to see.

Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

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

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

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