Erroneous Quotes

89 quotes by 75 authors

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
All sweeping assertions are erroneous. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed. — Nikola Tesla
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing… — Camille Paglia
The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet. — Murray Gell-Mann
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,… — John Dewey
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood… — Gerald Massey
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth… — Benjamin Tucker
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in… — Herbert Spencer
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such… — Huineng
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Paul Flory
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force,… — James Prescott Joule
I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false — Peter Joseph
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at… — Edward E. Barnard
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile… — Thurgood Marshall
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other,… — Henri Bergson
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. — Ambrose Bierce

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