823 Quotes About Errors

  • Author Jim Leyland
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    I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

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  • Author John Locke
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    Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

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  • Author John Locke
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    Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

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  • Author John Locke
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    Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

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  • Author John Locke
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    Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

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  • Author Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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    But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

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  • Author Lynn Love
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    We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and needed more positive hits. I think it paid off.

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