823 Quotes About Errors

  • Author Sophocles
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    To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

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  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

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  • Author Tom Stoppard
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    A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

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  • Author Tony Snow
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    Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

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  • Author Troy Schaefer
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    We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

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  • Author Wallace Stegner
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    The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

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  • Author Will Self
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    With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

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  • Author Zadie Smith
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    Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

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