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Errors Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
- When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their…
- When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair…
- None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
- In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger…
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present…
- Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should…
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- 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
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- 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
- The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 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