#errors

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics. ↗

— Mark Gatiss

#night-terrors #age

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#jesus #king #kings #may #terrors

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. ↗

— Plutarch

#future #good #learn #make #man

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

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

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

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ↗

— George Bancroft

#errors #full #lives #mirror #our

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

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