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• Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Men, Use, Matter

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• Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

  Benjamin Wiker

  Way, Sometimes, Defined

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• Long live gravity! Long live
  stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces
  of fantasy capitalism!

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Stupidity, Greed

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.80, The Golden Sufi Center

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• Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Success, Mistake, Risk

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• You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

  George Cukor

  Life, School, Trial And Error

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• If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

  George Brett

  Health, Chance, If I Stay

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• I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
  I work only under duress.

  Edward Abbey

  Trial And Error, Trials, Duress

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Long, Effort

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.115

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• It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, School, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.196

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• The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Teaching, School

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.197

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• Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cucumbers, Discworld, Please

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.218, Random House

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• A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Dull, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.13

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• The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love.

  Erich Fromm

  Falling In Love, Lying, Being In Love

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.4, A&C Black

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• An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

  Mark Van Doren

  Insecure, Ideas, Society

  Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”

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• We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Son, Men, Thinking

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• In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

  Paul Keres

  Second Chance, Chance, Endgame

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• The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

  Brian Aldiss

  Strong, Men, Ideas

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• To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Names, Abuse, Hints

  Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Ḥalimī (1962). “Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion”, Andre Deutsch

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• Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

  George Soros

  Investing, Rooms, Complexes

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Believe, Fall, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

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• When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Men, Ignorant

  "Gildas Salvianus; the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work". Book by Richard Baxter, 1656.

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• Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

  Gorgias

  Mistake, Men, Cities

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• Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Tests, Handle, Know How

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• We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Team, Play Hard

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