Errors Quote by Andrew Sullivan Download Open image “If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?” — Andrew Sullivan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Errors Fear Ifs Religion Truth
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct… — Ayn Rand 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 ourselves as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
