823 Quotes About Errors

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

We're not putting anything together right now. We're not hitting or pitching real well, and we made some big errors that hurt us.

It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

We had only two hitting errors in one game, then 15 in another. We're getting better at some things, but then we get lax at the other things.

There were a lot of walks, a lot of errors and not a lot of hits.