Errors Quotes

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“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.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.”
― Bryant McGill

“And now, for something completely the same:

Wasted time and wasted breath,
's what I'll make, until my death.
Helping people 'd be as good,
but I wouldn't, if I could.

For the few that help deserve,
have no need, or not the nerve,
help from strangers to accept,
plus from mine a few have wept.

Wept from joy, or from despair,
or just from my vengeful stare.
Ways I have, to look at stupid,
make them see I am not Cupid.

Make them see they are in error,
for of truth I am a bearer.
Most decide I'm just a bear,
mauling at them, - like I care.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

À qui la faute? (1872)”
― Victor Hugo

“Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.”
― Vannetta Chapman, Murder Tightly Knit

“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth.”
― Christopher Peter Grey, Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant

“You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Laws were made by men, and men made mistakes.”
― Joan D. Vinge, 47 Ronin

“If we agree that we don't just perceive the world, but we frame it, we must admit that errors and misunderstandings arise. Due to the differences in lived reality, we become more open to dialogue and are less addicted to certainty. (Is it a bird? Is it a plane?)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.”
― Mick Cochrane, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

“This life is a long cheat, full of promises that can never be kept, errors that can never be righted, omissions that can never be filled.”
― Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree

“In error I find truth, in you I found a place; and in all of this, I found nothing but nothingness. Contentment in my own gain and movement without seeing your face. Doubt where I knew I was wrong. We grow to exceed in our own self worth and in error we find our greatest truths.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them—and do them well.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Don't Hide Your Past (The Sonnet)

The first few minutes of my first
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.

Don't beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn't matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.

If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it's a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.

Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Do not turn yourself into a mirror of your past errors.”
― Eduvie Donald

“I swear it's easier to purge yourself of great errors than of little villainies.”
― Marek Hłasko, The Eighth Day of the Week

“Everyone makes mistakes, the brighter folks the more elaborate ones.”
― Robin Vale

“To make a mess is human, to make amends, divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“The fact that you have sinned and erred does NOT make you undeserving. That is what repentance is: confessing, repairing damages, and making positive changes moving forward. You are not undeserving because you erred, you are wiser because you learned. You can now extend real empathy to others because of the experience. Repent, improve, and know you are as deserving as anyone.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“Own your skeletons, or others will use them to own you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“You say I have a track record of errors. Perhaps that is true. Time and again I’ve been tested, along with all of us, and my victories have been few.
But I have survived. I have come back from every failure.”
― Alexander Freed, The Mask of Fear

“The old errors are fantastical and fantastic, and revealing of human hopes and anxieties; our terrors, our desires for greater digestive health and sexual prowess, our quest for magical solutions to relentlessly human problems. And every scientist you meet will tell you: there is no reason to believe that we haven't got just as much wrong today as we have done in every generation up till now. It would be worth our holding that knowledge, tight and urgent, as we go; our learning, though vast, is an infinitesimally small fraction of what exists.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“Sometimes, perfect moments feel empty — too smooth to hold joy. But the little stumbles, the unexpected errors, that’s where the fun sneaks in and makes the memory worth keeping.”
― Ayoub Imilouane, Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

“How come we think we are irrefutably right all the time? What makes us show off our rightness so often? If we agree that we don't just perceive the world, but we frame it, we must admit that errors and misunderstandings arise. Due to the differences in lived reality, we become more open to dialogue and are less addicted to carved certainty. (Is it a bird? Is it a plane?)”
― Erik Pevernagie