They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of… — Glenford Myers Copy Share Image
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's not hard to see why. Although it adds to our overall understanding of Benghazi, even a cursory read reveals sloppy errors… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
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
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error.… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Issuing orders and circulars without errors and in the proper way is crucial for efficient administration. This is why the Secretariat Office… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
“Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image