Error Quotes
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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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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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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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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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
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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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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and 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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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
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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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Complete accountability is established and enforced throughout; and if there there is any error committed, it will be discovered on a comparison with the books and can be traced to its source.
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
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Organizational analyses that show separate boxes for “culture” and “strategy” are making a fundamental conceptual error. Strategy is an integral part of the culture.
