823 Quotes About Errors

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

When resumes come in, especially in this market, hiring managers aren't looking to find someone ... they are looking to disqualify someone. Errors and hype do that.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.