There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.... However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our… — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely. — Louis van Gaal Copy Share Image
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. — Gil Amelio Copy Share Image
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you. — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors.… — Rumi 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
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.] — Moliere Copy Share Image
And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in… — Polly Berrien Berends 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