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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  James Madison

  Media, Humanity, Abuse

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1826). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.51

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• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Nature, Men, Opinion

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 20), 1949.

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• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  Ian Mcewan

  Religious, Regret, Important

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• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Literature, Nine

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.434, Vintage

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• The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Individuality, Half

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

  Kelly Miller

  Taken, Justice, Progress

  Kelly Miller (1914). “Out of the house of bondage”

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• Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

  Moliere

  Haste, Literature, Unreasonable

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• It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

  Robert Musil

  Believe, School, Students

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• Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

  Elon Musk

  Dna, Trying, Cases

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Lasts, Resorts

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Jersey, Study

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Science, Catholic, Religion

  Letter to the Rev. George V. Coyne on June 01, 1988. "John Paul II on science and religion: reflections on the new view from Rome". Book edited by George Coyne, 1990.

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• We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

  Ezra Pound

  Essentials, Literature, Individual

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• When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Future, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Funny, Precision, Dangerous

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Opportunity, Politics, Serious

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

  Benjamin Rush

  Fear, Controversy

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• The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Mistake, Struggle, Humanity

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Science, Power, Discovery

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Teaching, Philosophical, Learning

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• With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

  Will Self

  Anxiety, Events, Needs

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• My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

  Ayrton Senna

  Happens

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