823 Quotes About Errors

Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.