Error Quote by Jeremy Taylor Download Open image ““Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”” — Jeremy Taylor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Error Truth
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil.” — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will… — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Men often, in endeavoring to gratify their own passions, seek what is injurious to them, reject what would be truly advantageous, and are deluded… — Sozomen Copy Share Image
“there are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
We each define our god, and from this definition, we set the criteria for self-love — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Between an Error and a Lie, there are Worlds – an Error is an unintended Mistake, a Lie is an intentional Audacity.” — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Carve and polish it the way you like, error cannot be changed into a precious stone. — Ace Kid Copy Share Image
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
“Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole… — William James Copy Share Image
“In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not much more so. Undying… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ ” — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
