Sweeping Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon Download Open image “All sweeping assertions are erroneous.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sweeping
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today! — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such… — Nancy Northup Copy Share Image
And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image