Great Error Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a… — Thomas Jefferson
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act… — Simone Weil
Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are. — Alexander Hamilton
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is… — Ahad Ha'am
Woman must be put back in her place. Manâ€™s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease… — Boyd Rice
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body. — Plato
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the… — Plato
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with… — Edmund Burke
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth.… — Isak Dinesen
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time. — Camille Pissarro

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