823 Quotes About Errors


  • Author Ted Roof
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    Right now, we do not have a large margin for error. Unforced errors are unacceptable.

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  • Author Thomas Reid
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    A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

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  • Author Walter Raleigh
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    There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

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  • Author Adam Smith
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    When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

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  • Author Andrew Solomon
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    I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

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