Error Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Dr. Seuss
• Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein
• Abraham Lincoln
• Confucius
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Pope John Paul II
• Stephen King
• E. E. Cummings
• Barack Obama

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 22nd May

Births

• 1943 - Betty Williams
• 1934 - Garry Wills
• 1936 - M. Scott Peck
• 1910 - Johnny Olson
• 1987 - Novak Djokovic

Deaths

• 1802 - Martha Washington
• 1922 - Elizabeth David
• 1939 - Ernst Toller
• 1910 - Jules Renard
• 1540 - Francesco Guicciardini

• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it’s an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Error

• If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

  Stand Watie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commit, Error

• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  Raymond Aron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimism, Error, Intellectual

• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Error, Judgment

• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instantly, Error, Man

• Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

  James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Error, Man

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn’t have prosecuted the war. We shouldn’t have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Error, Heavy

• My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

  Ayrton Senna

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Error, Happen

• Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

  Christine Baranski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Error, Athlete, Margin, Celebrity

• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Media, Error, Rapport, Establish

• Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Miles, Error

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Ten, Error

• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Tags in Counts, Error

• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Tags in Extraordinarily, Error

• Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Ridiculed, Pitied, Error

• It’s a big error to think that because you like somebody’s work, you’re going to like him.

  Paul Simon

  Tags in Error

• You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

  Teri Garr

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Error

• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Error, Sincerity, Earnest

• Error is just as important a condition of life as truth.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Tags in Error