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Quotations about errors

It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world's worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.

 - Owen Feltham

Tags:   disrespect  errors  greed  mistakes  

Carl SaganHumans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science -- by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that 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 bars a little, and to add to the body of data to which error bars apply.

 - Carl Sagan

Tags:   certainty  errors  learning  science  understanding  

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

 - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Tags:   danger  errors  truth  

Wilbur WrightIf a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it, and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some error with it.

 - Wilbur Wright

Tags:   arguments  errors  truth  

Horace One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways.

 - Horace

Tags:   deviation  errors  mistakes