823 Quotes About Errors

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .