Errors Quotes

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The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be… — Lewis Thomas
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also… — Philip K. Dick
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that… — Paul Valery
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
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… — C.S. Lewis
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the… — Wilhelm Reich
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into… — C.S. Lewis
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet… — Antonio Machado
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. — Douglas Adams
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were… — Thomas Hardy
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as… — Daniel Webster

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