Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.