#errors

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter. ↗

— Gideon Welles

#been #brighter #errors #heart #hopes

The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth. ↗

— Christopher Peter Grey

#hubris #mistakes #truth #men

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#errors #inadequate #less #much #than

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#errors #experience #light #our #renounce

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. ↗

— Paul Brown

#fewest #football #game #makes #team

Once again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on 'consensus science' and not scientific fact. ↗

— Doug Hoffman

#base #based #being #change #climate

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#beings #errors #fanaticism #human #human beings

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. ↗

— Dale Turner

#admit #amends #character #discovered #error

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#errors #expert #fallacy #grand #person