Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

— Edmund Burke

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

— Laozi

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

— John Locke

“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my…

— Kathryn Schulz

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

— Bill Bartmann

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

— Mason Cooley

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of…

— William Hazlitt

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

— Kurt Gödel

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Error is discipline through which we advance.

— William Ellery Channing

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

— Zora Neale Hurston