When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I've found that little kids show a more distinct reaction when the songs are ones that everyone can enjoy together. Because people's… — Yunho Copy Share Image
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who have studied the Bible Code know that everything that has ever happened in the past, in the future or in… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was… — Jim Leyland Copy Share Image
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my… — Keith Johnstone 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