Errors Quotes - Page 11

• We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect an institutional bias in criminal justice, but what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement.

  Mike Pence

  Jobs, Men, Law

  Source: www.politico.com

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• On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob] Dylan, to them, is the harbinger of the low-culture mob; the latest in an unending number of final straws, or the thin end of a wedge that never seems to get thicker.

  David Bennun

  Mistake, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.

  David Bennun

  Running, Thinking, Views

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Democracy, Together

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Let's take Pravda in the 1980s. I mean you could have read things in Pravda saying that it was a stupid error to invade Afghanistan: "it was a dumb thing to do, we have to get out, it's costing us too much." I mean that U.S. analog of that would be "extreme liberalism," and it has been pretty well studied.

  Noam Chomsky

  Stupid, Mean, Dumb

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opposites, Two, Others Opinions

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

  John Stuart Mill

  Confusion, May, Opinion

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Lying, Sea

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

  Paula Broadwell

  Mistake, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely clear in their error and their stupidity, and so you can really go after them.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Stupidity, Elements

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Since the Moi era, or 'error' as I call it, prime jobs have been stuffed with semi-literate Kalenjin herdsmen. I imagined that Mwai Kibaki would correct this but in fact he maintained many of them, and those he sent home were replaced by his kleptocratic tribesmen.

  Raila Odinga

  Jobs, Home, Eras

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• I've found that little kids show a more distinct reaction when the songs are ones that everyone can enjoy together. Because people's preferences change with the different countries I visit, I go through trial and error to figure things out.

  Yunho

  Country, Song, Kids

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my fault which is that a lot of things are taught to beginners which you can cast off later on.

  Keith Johnstone

  Thinking, Beginners, Taught

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.

  Wole Soyinka

  Past, Thinking, Space

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• It really is true the Lord's way is to love the sinner while condemning the sin. That is to say we continue to open our homes and our hearts and our arms to our children, but that need not be with approval of their lifestyle. Neither does it mean we need to be constantly telling them that their lifestyle is inappropriate. An even bigger error is now to become defensive of the child, because that neither helps the child nor helps the parent. That course of action, which experience teaches, is almost certainly to lead both away from the Lord's way.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Home, Heart

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

  Plato

  Doe, Source, Intellect

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.2054, e-artnow

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• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Views, Giving

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  Plato

  Matter, Poet, Good Work

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.

  Mark Dever

  People, Needs, Praying

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.'

  Greg Koukl

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Risk, Atmosphere, Prudent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the wake of a national trauma. And that the errors made under such circumstances are different than errors made in the cold.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Those who have studied the Bible Code know that everything that has ever happened in the past, in the future or in the present is already written down, and they never found an error until 1998, when they did.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Past, Down And, Found

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• What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can't help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kindness, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"

  Roger Ebert

  Get Well, Writing, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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