Errors Quotes · Page 28

The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

— Richard Henry Pratt

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

— Ambrose Bierce

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

— Anonymous

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

— Linus Pauling

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

— Bertrand Russell

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the…

— Horace Mann

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Are you going to judge a person's character by the mistakes they made on a few bad dates or by their achievements?”

— Steven Magee

An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and…

— Leroy Hood

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to…

— Bob Woodward

Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's…

— Goenawan Mohamad

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and…

— Galileo Galilei

Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover…

— Frederick Lenz

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference…

— Carl Sagan

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and…

— George S. Patton

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from…

— Herbert Spencer

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and…

— Jay E. Adams

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a…

— Lewis Thomas

The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that…

— Keshub Chandra Sen

Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.…

— John Gresham Machen

It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these…

— Richard Carrier

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone…

— Chico Xavier

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

— Thomas Hobbes

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own…

— Albert Ellis

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

— Adrian Rogers

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him…

— Elbert Hubbard

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

— Paul Tillich

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

— Robert Solow

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the…

— Plato

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

— Paul Keres

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

— Anonymous

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

— Martha Beck

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

— Franz Kafka

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

— Karl Donitz

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

— James Madison