He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded.… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors. — George Soros Copy Share Image
... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
