Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance… — Gina Barreca 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
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the… — Scott Mandia Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone. — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference. — Lisa Fernandez Copy Share Image
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of… — Tom Gilb Copy Share Image
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It is easy to remove a weevil from a grain, but hard to reverse the damage it does.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image