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Errors Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
- The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without…
- The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
- From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether…
- The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in…
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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
- 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