#errors

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. ↗

— George Washington

#bought #dearly #derive #errors #experience

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#changed #correct #could #development #embarked

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#completely #concept #correct #danger #entire

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. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#correct #errors #man #quite #take

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file. ↗

— Jon Postel

#because #data #delivered #does #errors

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

#behalf #caution #certain #errors #excessive