Erroneous Quotes

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The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins. — Grenville Kleiser
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way… — Ulrich Beck
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce
self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal. — Ambrose Bierce
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only… — John Rawls
Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your… — Steve Jobs
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of… — Jimmy Carter
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. — Stephen Jay Gould
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. — Hermann Hesse
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and… — Jeffrey Kluger
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. — Bertrand Russell
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.… — Christopher Paolini
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing… — Orson Scott Card
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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