Error is always more busy than truth.
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.
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.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!
The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations’ punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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.
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
From a cognitive standpoint, I’m very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.
If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
I had to go through so much trial and error to get all the whack-ness out of my system as a kid. I think everybody has to do that. You have to go through a period of failing in order to get better at it – whatever you’re doing.
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It’s uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It’s trial and error, really. If something doesn’t work, it comes out, and you start all over again.
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.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
Lots of entrepreneurs don’t want to be hassled by a board of directors early on. The entrepreneurs want to control the company, don’t want to be responsible to a board, or don’t want to waste time communicating with board members. This is a classic error of thinking about the early stage board incorrectly.
The margin for error with Mark Hunt is a lot smaller than it is with some of the other heavyweights where you can get caught with a shot and maybe recover.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
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.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
There’s a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It’s a wide target.
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
You have to carry yourself with respect, care about your reputation. And unfortunately, as a woman, you have to be smarter and better and you have no room for mistakes or error.
I believe we are built to have thriving personal lives, and I think we’re built to have thriving professional lives. Where the error occurs is when one becomes secondary to the other.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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.
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error – doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.
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.
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.
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 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.
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge – and I guess that’s what makes it funny, that tension.
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.’
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.
Trial and error does not work in real estate. It’s way too expensive to learn from your own mistakes, you need to learn from others’ mistakes.
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.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.
The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will impact us and our safety for generations. It may completely unravel the entire Middle East forever.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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.
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.
Essentially, ‘Z2’ ended up feeling the way that it should, but it was through a considerable amount of trial and error that it took to get there.
