Pastoral Resources

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

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.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.