Errors Quotes by Ayn Rand

8 Errors quotes by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand’s eight lines confront error head‑on, each a succinct articulation of her philosophy on personal responsibility. The collection’s modest size makes it a quick yet potent glimpse into her stance on misjudgment.

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Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

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Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made…

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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you…

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Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind…

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“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind…

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You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but…

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That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

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“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

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