Quotes by Errors All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. Thomas Binney errorsneighborhoodspring I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying. Thomas Bernhard punishmenterrorswould-be I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably. Thomas Bernhard dungeonschildhooderrors What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time. Thomas Berry errorsnatureanimal We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. Thomas B. Macaulay errorsreasonsaid The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil. Thomas Aquinas errorsfightingnumbers If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell. Thomas a Kempis simplicityerrorsheart Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth. Thomas Aquinas errorspridechildren My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. Thomas A. Edison errorsmenbelieve Any error about creation also leads to an error about God. Thomas Aquinas creationerrors The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement. Thomas Aquinas errorsevillong The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error. Thomas B. Macaulay atheismerrorsreligious Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Thomas Browne troopserrorsenemy Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. Thomas Aquinas errorsmistaketwo The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. Thomas Carlyle masserrorstruth There is no effort without error or shortcoming. Theodore Roosevelt daring-greatlyefforterrors Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world. Thomas Aquinas errorsstarsthinking It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. Thomas Huxley errorssoundhelping The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion. Thomas Hobbes passionerrorsignorance No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes errorslawmistake«7778798081828384858687»
