823 Quotes About Errors

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.