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• Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

  Austin O'Malley

  Fall, Knowledge, Men

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• Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

  James M. Barrie

  Pain, Memories, Humility

  "The Little Minister". Book by James M. Barrie, 1891.

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• Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Truth, Cellars

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• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Triumph, Joining

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

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• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Path, Enough

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Pigs, Independence, Mind

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• The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Men, Doctors

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

  John Calvin

  Men, Decision, Church

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, Oxford University Press

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• I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Law, People, Desire

  Eighth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. December 05, 1876.

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• Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Thinking, Voice, Needs

  "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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• I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Thinking, Make You Think

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• There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.

  J. C. Ryle

  Views, Doctrine, May

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• Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be
  more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system

  J. C. Ryle

  Character, Men, Views

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• Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Tree, Giants, Grain

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.293, Macmillan

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• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Mistake, Punishment, Medicine

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• It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.

  Stephen Harper

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Invasion

  English leaders' debate, October 2, 2008.

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• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

  Aleister Crowley

  Crush, Country, Sex

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.213, Booklassic

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• Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

  Richard Russo

  Foundation, Stories, Way

  Richard Russo (2010). “That Old Cape Magic”, p.85, Random House

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• The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

  Alan Kay

  Ocean, Technology, Men

  Interview with Andrew Binstock, www.drdobbs.com. July 10, 2012.

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• In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Political, Single Life, Goya

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

  Jeff Buckley

  Ignorance, Reality, Negativity

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• We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process

  Glenford Myers

  Rushing, Design Process, Trying

  Glenford J. Myers (1978). “Composite/structured design”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Long, People, Childhood

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• When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Selfish, Passion

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Golden, Twenties, Do Unto Others

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