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Errors 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…
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- 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,…
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has…
- 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 Errors 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
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- 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