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Errors Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
- The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that…
- Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first…
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other…
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