Errors Quotes - Page 26

• It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

  Margaret Fuller

  Independent, And Love, Energy

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Gratitude, Real

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• True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

  William Hazlitt

  True Friend, Real, Mirrors

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.114

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• It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Perfection, Evolution

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.247, 1st World Publishing

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• Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nature, Science, Design

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• Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Intellectual, Suffering

  "Man and Socialism in Cuba". A letter by Che Guevara to Carlos Quijano, 1965.

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• In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Kings, Betrayal, Men

  'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131

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• One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Fate, Destiny

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motivation, Humility, Self

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Atheist, Church

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• When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

  Thomas Sowell

  Sin, Human Nature, Dialogue

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• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Research

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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• There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Ambition, Government

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

  Wernher von Braun

  Failure, Rockets, Thousand

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• [The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

  Morris Kline

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.

  Jean Meslier

  Atheist, Lying, Believe

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• It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Mistake, Religion

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.406, e-artnow

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Healing, Issues

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• The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Biblical, Giving

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• If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Life, Motivational, Truth

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.326, Univ of California Press

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• Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  Lysander Spooner (2006). “Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Depressing, Today, Existence

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• An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Mean, Justice

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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