Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case… — Glenford Myers Copy Share Image
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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
