Quotes by Errors Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies. Robert Browning errorsteachinglying It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. Robert H. Jackson errorsgovernmentfall All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth. Robert Green Ingersoll errorstruthreligion The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner', and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology. Robert H. Schuller errorshistoricalchristian The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. Robert K. Merton errorsselfscience How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. Robert M. Lindner persistenceerrorsjustice Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct. Robert Owen errorsbelievereligion It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! Robert Musil errorsbelieveschool My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man. Robert Owen errorsmenchildren Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error. Robert Pollack disciplineerrorsscience All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. Robert Louis Stevenson errorsstrongmistake A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it. Robert Ruark errorshonestymen If you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards - it's a futile experience and it's not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you're on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it - I don't think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors. Robert Plant errorsregretthinking The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. Robert Southwell errorstryingheaven We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. Roderick Murchison errorsnaturescience To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. Rodrigo Rato imbalanceerrorstrying [I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error. Roger Bacon errorstruthscience In the Rather/Bush incident, it was totally unfair. CBS was trying him and convicting him and trying to execute him on national television. They had made up their minds. CBS made the fatal error of trying to become the political opposition to George Bush. And, when they did that, they put themselves in an arena where they can get knocked on their fanny. Roger Ailes errorspoliticalmind Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy. Roger Joseph Boscovich errorsphilosophyscience If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. Roger von Oech errorsuseideas«6970717273747576777879»
