By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much… — William James 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
When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion,… — Jackie Stewart Copy Share Image
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the… — Plato Copy Share Image
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks… — Sara Bonnett Stein Copy Share Image
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday… — Will Self 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
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human. — Juliet Marillier 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
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made.… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image