Quotes by Errors The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved. Henry Thomas Buckle errorsmayenemy Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. Henry Theodore Tuckerman destinyerrorsfacts Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray. Henry Ward Beecher dangerouserrorstruth We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more. Helen Keller errorsrightsmen We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error. Friedrich Nietzsche errorstruthknowledge But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration. Friedrich Nietzsche errorschristianphilosophy The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. Herbert Hoover errorstrialsnight Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints. Herbert Spencer errorsmenlife The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. Herodotus undertakingserrorsloss But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908) Hiram Maxim errorssciencethinking Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow errorssorrowlooks One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. Hermann Hesse siddharthaerrorsself So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann errorshumanityheart Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. Horace Mann errorsdevelopmenttruth The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. Howard Aiken efforterrorsdesire Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. Friedrich Nietzsche errorslittlesmen I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade. Henry Rollins errorsperfectthinking One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. Horace errorssocietypolitics No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. Horace Mann rejoiceerrorsself If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty. Howard Staunton errorsgamesmoving«3132333435363738394041»
