The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream'… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun 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
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that… — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When did I ever teach anything wrong from this stand? When was I ever confounded? I want to triumph in Israel before… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy. — Sun Bin Copy Share Image
In the one-on-one it is going to be harder for [Donald] Trump to get away from those sorts of things because there… — Josh Barro Copy Share Image
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of… — Carl Sagan 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
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that.… — Hale Irwin Copy Share Image
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
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