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Errors Quotes by David Brin
- Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
- In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception.…
- In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what…
- Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need…
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