#errors

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. ↗

— James Buchan

#economists #errors #like #punished #royal

A man's errors are his portals of discovery. ↗

— James Joyce

#errors #his #man #portals

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#cannot #cast #conscience #down #evil

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#dangerous #errors #free #grapple #left

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#against #combat #continuous #errors #individual

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#death #new #terrors

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#claim #computer #doctors #errors #know

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #being #conduct #errors #fighting

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors