823 Quotes About Errors

We compounded too many errors together. On the flip side, R.A. Long fought pitches off, found the holes and banged some big hits.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.

When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

We just made too many mental errors in key situations.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

We were a little stiff. We made some errors and couldn't seem to get runners on base.