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Error Quotes by Simone Weil
- The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
- Truth is one, but error is manifold.
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
- 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
- There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell