Quotes by Errors No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error. Benjamin Graham safety errors odds No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. Benjamin Robbins Curtis errors answers may Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them. Benjamin Rush errors intelligent needs Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. Benjamin Rush controversy errors fear Error is but the shadow of the truth. Benjamin Stillingfleet shadow errors The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits. Benjamin Tucker lexicographer errors acceptance He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. Benjamin Whichcote errors conceited wisdom Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth Benjamin Wiker errors sometimes way Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. Bernard Baruch errors action motivational This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error. Bernardine Dohrn errors gun military The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. Bertolt Brecht errors wisdom science William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell errors opposites believe Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? Bertrand Russell repeats commit errors A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell hallucinations errors science More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. Bertrand Russell crank errors None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. Bertrand Russell vagueness errors belief Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors. Bertrand Russell errors solitude men In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described. Bertrand Russell errors reality fall People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell errors believe people To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error. Bertrand Russell errors simple silly «56789101112131415»
