Courses Quote by Samuel Johnson

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

— Margaret Fuller

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

— Plautus

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

— Franz Grillparzer

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

— James Madison

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

— Arthur Keith

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

— Aesop

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are…

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

— Alexander Hamilton