It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. — George Iles Copy Share Image
If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix. — Dick Taylor Copy Share Image
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling,… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all… — Christiane Collange Copy Share Image
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought. — Charles K. Kao Copy Share Image
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius Copy Share Image
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
