Erroneous Quotes

89 quotes by 75 authors

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a… — 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 erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — 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 time, now appear to be… — 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 erroneous than to measure the… — Muhammad Asad
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they… — Pope Pius X
We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and… — Benjamin Franklin
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do… — Dave Hunt
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. — Gautama Buddha
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within… — Hafez

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