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Error Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,…
- Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...…
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
- Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of…
- I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum…
- The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that…
- A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by…
- Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of…
More Error Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your… — Francis Bacon
- We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the… — Joko Beck
- In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only… — John J. Pershing
- I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our… — Francois Magendie