Errol Morris Quotes

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Errol Morris

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• My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Route

• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Facts
  • Errors
  • Overthrow

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Together
  • Evil

• It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

  

  D. V. Ager
  • May
  • Science
  • Past

• You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lost
  • Learning
  • Finals

• I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Knows
  • Eternity

• To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Failure

• The U.N. route has to be continued... Europe is not divided on this point.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Europe
  • Divided
  • Route

• Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Errors
  • Experienced

• When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

  

  Plato
  • Know
  • Errors
  • Supposes

• All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Evil
  • Advice
  • Errors

• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth
  • Errors
  • Adventures

• Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Road
  • Progress
  • Errors

• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Politics
  • Errors
  • Newspaper

• The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Errors
  • Convinced

• The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

  

  William J. Mayo
  • Fingers
  • Physicians
  • Examination

• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Animal
  • Laws
  • Ethics

• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

  

  Alex Ebert
  • Connection
  • Architecture
  • Greek

• There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Moving
  • Interest
  • Congress

• This is my life. Born in a generation that craves distraction and escape. We are, after all, kids trapped in adult bodies. Kinda makes you wonder how we'll change the world.

  

  Arnold Arre
  • Generation
  • Escape
  • Distraction

• The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Errors
  • Examination
  • Route