Errors Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Errors History History Human Human error Human Errors Human Opinion Humans Nature of man Opinion Opinion Scarcely Scarcely History
“There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
