Erring Quotes

Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.