Error Quotes

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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that… — Eliot Spitzer
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. — Edward Gibbon
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.Â She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether… — Joko Beck
High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many… — Franco Modigliani
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long. — George Crabbe
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge… — Abraham Lincoln
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. — Austin O'Malley
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with… — Horace Mann
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper
The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something… — Martin Luther
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church.… — John Calvin
Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make… — Cecilia Bartoli
I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you… — Charles Spurgeon
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. — Thomas Merton

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