That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image