“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified,… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own! — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I… — David Finch Copy Share Image
An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
“I would rather make the wrong decision and correct it, rather than make no decision which leaves me nothing to correct.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without… — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.... — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up.… — RZA Copy Share Image
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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