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
