46 quotes found
“[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.”
“To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the d...”
“Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...”
“Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.”
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend i...”
“An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.”
“The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It wont, darlin, it wont.”
“I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.”
“Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.”
“To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.”
“To err is human to forgive divine.”
“An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.”
“When every one is in the wrong every one is in the right.”
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
“Error will slip through a crack while truth will stick in a doorway.”
“Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the b...”
“... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...”
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”
“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.”
