The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
My approach in life is very clear: if there is an error, I tend to apologise and indeed most mornings I'll apologise… — Greg Hunt Copy Share Image
You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions… — Dave Barry 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
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors -… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon… — William Thoms Copy Share Image
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d done. I didn’t believe her. I didn’t trust her. I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
