Pastoral Resources

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.