314 Quotes About Error

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.

The electrical ring main that is widely used in the United Kingdom (UK) to wire electrical outlets is by definition a wiring error, as it permits unbalanced currents to flow in the electrical cables.

We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.

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 won’t, darlin’, it won’t.

Only the knowledge of Scripture of Truth can deliver a us from the error of our ways.

God can be patient with you until you understand what He is saying.

You live in a world where people remember your error far more than the testimony after. So you gotta be careful with your record.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.