Rene Descartes Quotes

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Night

• Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

  

  James Hutton
  • Truth
  • Fail
  • Error

• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Young

• Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

  

  Aristotle
  • Word
  • Error
  • Wicked Man

• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowing
  • Error
  • Universal

• The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Pleasure

• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
  • Person
  • Christianity

• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Error
  • Poets
  • Artisans

• A life without music is an error.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Music
  • Error

• Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  

  William James
  • Dream
  • Giving
  • Energy

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Capacity
  • Depends

• Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life is
  • Error
  • Truth Is

• I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Faith
  • Error
  • Detest

• For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Changes
  • I Consider
  • Alterations

• I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • I Consider
  • Recipient
  • Good Rule

• To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

  

  William Blake
  • Error
  • Cast
  • God's Design

• You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dirty
  • Fingers
  • Sauce

• I do a variety of activities like Pilates, bike riding, physical therapy, and running. I also train on the ice five to six days a week. On the ice, I work on my programs as a whole and the individual technical elements that comprise the programs.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Variety
  • Activities
  • Pilates

• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Error
  • Amazed
  • I Consider