"In the real world, very smart people fail……" — Camille Paglia

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• I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as… — Michele Bachmann
• This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas. — Adriano Celentano
• A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be… — Thomas Hobbes
• We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that… — R. Buckminster Fuller
• Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by… — Thomas Huxley
• [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the… — H. L. Mencken
• It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
• What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the… — Francis Crick
• Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. — Peter Drucker
• Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton
• ...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more… — Muhammad Asad
• There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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