Quotes with error

  • Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
  • Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
  • It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
  • If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
  • Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
  • Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
  • Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
  • An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
  • Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
  • The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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  • Louis Aragon Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Bertrand Russell A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Guiterman Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
    Arthur Guiterman
     
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  • Alexis Carrel A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Andrew Jackson Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alvin Toffler Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • René Daumal Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Billie Jean King Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Billie Jean King Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • George Herbert Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • William Cowper Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Philip K. Dick Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
    Judicial opinions Roberts v. New York, 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935).
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • William Ellery Channing Error is discipline through which we advance.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Louis Aragon Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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