Top 1200 Human Error Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

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.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.

The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you're meeting people and perceiving them as human beings and not as racial stereotypes and myths.

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.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

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?

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

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.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

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.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error upon error till he is buried in his own belief.... It is the office of wisdom to explain the phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, and how it can be unmade. This is as much a science as it is to know how to decompose a piece of metal.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.