823 Quotes About Errors

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn’t matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.

If there were an unusual number of 'typos' (typographical errors) in their work--well, the lurking fear of a Winchester slug in the back might account for many mistakes.

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

When things consistently go wrong you know you're living in the real world.

in [...] gefährlichen Dingen [...] sind die Irrtümer, welche aus Gutmütigkeit entstehen, gerade die schlimmsten.

...somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.