Error Avoidance Quotes

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

You learn from a mistake by just not doing it ever again. And then you forget about it.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Delay is preferable to error.

People don't like to make mistakes.

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

I just don't like making mistakes.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.