errors Quotes

“I have learned two ways to tie my shoes. One way is only good for lying down. The other way is good for walking.”

“Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

“While still man strives, still he must err.”

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

“The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.”

“These errors may be trivial in themselves, but you must yourself realize their larger significance.”

“I have been responsible for a series of small errors in the carrying out of my duties.”

“One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.”

“Our unconscious is a powerful force. But it’s fallible. It’s not the case that our internal computer always shines through, instantly decoding the “truth” of a situation. It can be thrown off, distracted, and disabled. Our instinctive reactions often have to compete with all kinds of other interests and emotions and sentiments.”

“Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? I was all adrift among a thousand contradictory hypotheses, but I could not lay hold of one.”

“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.”

“A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.”

“I don’t want to insist on it, Dave, but I am incapable of making an error.”

″... in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.”

“Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly.”

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“Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. If they had the courage to go one step further, they would discover their error.”