Error Quotes
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Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.
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Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
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Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
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Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered.
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If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.
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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
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It was a tough play, so I don't feel like it was an error.
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Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
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Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
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Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.
