Errors Quotes

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. — Louis Aragon
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a… — Thomas Sowell
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. — Wernher von Braun
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to… — Morris Kline
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the… — Robert H. Jackson
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced… — Jean Meslier
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living. — Sinclair Lewis
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems… — Carl Sagan
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… — C.S. Lewis
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. — Hans Reichenbach
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and… — Lysander Spooner
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a… — Thomas Jefferson
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances,… — Isabella Beeton
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready… — Carl von Clausewitz

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