Error Quotes
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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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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All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.
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It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.
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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
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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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Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.
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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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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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It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.
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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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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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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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It was a tough play, so I don't feel like it was an error.
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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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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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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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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
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Without error there can be no brilliancy.
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Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
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The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.
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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.
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No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
