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“Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.”

Ifs World Want Needs Giving Whole Light Turns Painting Photography Cameras Errors Whole World Spots Blur

Author:Miroslav Tichy

“Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring the earth. Euclid is perpetually in their hands. Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen. Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels, and they corrupt the simplicity of the gospel by the refinements of human reason.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.”

Long Would Be Term Century Europe Errors Long Term Turkeys

Author:William Hague

“I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.”

Hard Voice Listening Errors Trials Auditions Trial And Error Matching Impressionists

Author:Tom Kenny

“My approach in life is very clear: if there is an error, I tend to apologise and indeed most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife for the inevitable errors I'm going to make during the course of a day.”

Ifs Life Is Courses Morning Clear Wife Approach Errors My Wife Inevitable

Author:Greg Hunt

“Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.”

People Mistake Teach Errors Bricklaying

Author:William Faulkner

“We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.”

Doubt Errors Trials Certainty Impulse Resisting Trial And Error

Book:Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Source: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

“In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles. . . . All the doctors have ascribed to the water a power which it does not have and the holy apostles did not teach.”

Ifs May Doe Has Beens I Can Matter Water Teach Holy Doctors Errors Apostles Baptism

Author:Huldrych Zwingli

“This idea that once you get into politics you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.”

Way Believe Ideas Views Duty Office Fundamentals Errors Progressive Lifelong

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.”

Reason Remember Childhood Crime Errors Judicial Dungeons Inmates

Book:Correction: A Novel

Source: Correction: A Novel

“In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.”

“All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.”

Art Errors Stupidity Works Of Art Smallest Spoil Hesitation Heaviness

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.”

America Errors Vulgar

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.”

Past Individual Nations Ability Study Victory Foundation Lays Errors Empowering

Author:Aberjhani

“Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.”

“Error often is to be preferred to indecision.”

Errors Often Is Indecision

Book:Memoirs of Aaron Burr

Source: Memoirs of Aaron Burr

“I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.”

Principles Mankind Errors Mischief Inception

Author:Jasper Fforde

“The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.”

Mind Eye Errors

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

“The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.”

Possibility Errors Metaphor Oneself Recognition Grants Adversaries Fanaticism Partial Truth

Author:Alvin Toffler

“As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.”

Humans Human Beings Errors Accidents Elites Contemplating Transcription

Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.”

Wells Sound Church Catholic Fundamentals Errors Significant Doctrine Orthodox Council Luther Catholic Church Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church

Author:Norman Geisler

“No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.”

May Nations Answers Court Errors Supreme Inferiors Equity Proceeding Partiality

Book:A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings

Source: A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings

“Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history”

Long Form Process Truth Is Errors Baking Hardened

Book:Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

Source: Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

“The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.”

Differences Successful Calling Errors Discovering Trash Implementing Free Living

Book:48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

Source: 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.”

Firsts Problem Action Conditions Design Messages Errors Careful Checks Commit Users Confirmation

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.”

Used Easier Errors Screens Features Progressive Application Disclosure

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.”

Ignorance Prove Errors Deeds Harm Mistaken Clinging Prove To Me

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Custom without truth is error grown old.”

Truth Is Errors Customs

Author:Tertullian

“Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.”

Progress Depends Errors Trials Recognizing Trial And Error

Book:The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”

“You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.”

Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

“Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.”

Heart Soul Lasts Night Sleep My Heart Errors Last Night Marvellous

Book:Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

“Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.”

People Humans Matter Nice Errors Brilliance Very Nice Parades

Book:Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.”

“Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.”

Differences Money Personality Errors Debt Wide Sensations Manifest New Things Ugliness Expenditures

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

“Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.”

Truth Errors Rounds Again And Again

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.”

Ifs Truth Turns Sleep Errors Waking

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.”

Truth Loses Grace Errors Ridiculous Insipid

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One errs as long as one strives.”

Long Errors Strive Strife

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.”

Success Mistake Masters Errors Planning Sequence Anticipate

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.”

Years Eye Earth Brain Feet Atheism Percent Years Ago Tools Sticks Errors Positive Atheism Experiments Plus Precision Zest

Author:Carl Sagan

“We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.”

“Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.”

Humans Race Atheism Amount Errors Extremes Positive Atheism Human Race Catholicism Hypothesis Allowance Fallibility

Book:History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

“A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.”

Men World Atheism Thousand Errors Positive Atheism Falsehood Sly

Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.”

Christian Reading Nations Bible Errors Defence Bible Reading

Book:Holiness

Source: Holiness

“The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you as best I know how. And I've always leveled with you, and always will, knowing full well that everyone will not agree with me.”

Knows Wells Lord Know How Knowing Impossible Offers Agree Errors Scary Serving Dedication

Author:Jesse Helms

“If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.”

Men Problem Mathematics Add Errors Equations Only Time

Author:RZA

“Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.”

Made Two Mistake Argument Errors

Book:St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts