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How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
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.
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to 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.
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
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.
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.
Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.
We had fashion errors that became hits. We were bold with our colors and tights and being very sexy and the assymmetrical hairstyle.
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.