Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that… — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should… — William James Copy Share Image
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error… — Jacques Lecoq Copy Share Image
For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is… — Hans-Peter Durr Copy Share Image
Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with… — Walter Farrell Copy Share Image
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
