Quotes having the keyword Error
If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
by Howard Staunton (Celebrity, English , born in 1810) keywords: any, been, committed, correction, course, discovered, during, error, game, made, moves, must, necessary, penalty, pieces , without Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
by Publilius Syrus (Writer , Roman) keywords: art, double, error, expression, face, illusion, just, phantom, reality, science , truth Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
by Alvin Toffler (Author, American , born in 1928) keywords: anyone, correction, deserves, doubtless, editor, enough, error, letter, provoked , write 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.
by Dale Turnerkeywords: adhere, admit, amends, character, discovered, error, errors, form, highest, infirmity, judgment, make, mistake, mistakes, only, our, self-respect, shows , them Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
by Dale Turnerkeywords: best, error, ever, future, learn, learned, lessons, mistakes, past, some, success , wisdom The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
by Swami Vivekananda (Clergyman, Indian , born in 1863) keywords: cannot, creature, error, greatest, miserable, only, power, recognizes, say, says, sin, sinner , weak What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: consequence, each, error, first, folly, formed, frailty, humanity, law, nature, other, pardon, reciprocally, tolerance , us In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
by Hugh Walpole (Writer, New Zealander , born in 1884) topics: Science keywords: better, error, first, go, last, precedes, science, should, than , truth If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
by Bill Walsh (Editor, American , born in 1961) keywords: any, cardinal, checked, copy, editing, error, every, incorrect, inexcusable, must, number, phone, published, rules , sort There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: calculate, cure, discard, error, expect, experience, favors, greater, illusion, just, must, nation, ought, pride, real, than, upon , which Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: admitted, americans, apologized, country, early, error, escaped, failure, forgiving, grand, had, his, mistake, nixon, understand , would The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: become, been, difficult, error, fixed, formed, habits, hard, mind, practice, prejudice, principles, receive, simplest, time, truths , warped We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: basis, bounds, contention, error, ever, facts, field, horizon, human, indisputable, known, must, never, none, observation, once, present, religion, seen, source, stands, therefore, things, us , within
