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Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.
While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.
There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.