Error Quote by Robert G. Paul

“Understanding also comes in different ways according to beliefs and misbeliefs”

— Shiran Chathuka

“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and…

— Alan Watts

“Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the…

— Kathryn Schulz

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking…

— Marilynne Robinson

“While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is still sheltered…

— Sam Harris

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it…

— Richard Dawkins

“Consider the possibility that your perception is wrong, and put your energy into learning why their beliefs aren’t inconsistent to them.”

— Suzanne L. Davis

“I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for…

— Charles M. Schulz

“To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

— Ernest Renan

“All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.”

— Bertrand Russell