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• Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

  Chico Xavier

  Thinking, Needs, Equilibrium

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• ... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Space, Effort, Add

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Rights, Gone Away

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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• It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Progressive, Truth Is, Fractions

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay”, p.30, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

  Donald Berwick

  Design, Facts, Accepting

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• Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.

  Max Anders

  Painful, Found

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• Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

  Max Anders

  Risk, Doctrine, Moral

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• Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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• Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Reality, Stupidity

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• If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Catholic

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• My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.

  Robert Owen

  Children, Men, Quality

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Reason, Said, Prove

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Effort, Vision

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Discovery, Joy, Labyrinth

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• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  Edouard Boubat

  Morning, Pain, Flower

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• Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Love Is, Law, Balance

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• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Information, Gaps

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• It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wise, Opponents

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• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Brain, Opponents, Source

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• The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

  William E. Gladstone

  Order, History, May

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• We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

  Carl Sagan

  Giving, Challenges, Rewards

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

  Charles Mingus

  God, Men, Thinking

  "Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book". Book by Andrew Homzy, November 1, 1991.

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• The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Reason

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man”, p.47

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• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  George Rodger

  Cutting, Self, Trial And Error

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