I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages. . . in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
Every error is truth abused.
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.
If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.