A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will… — Frances Osborne 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
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player. — William Alexander Copy Share Image
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, — Lucian Leape Copy Share Image
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy. — Roger Joseph Boscovich Copy Share Image
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen. — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul 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
If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
