Quotes by Errors Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. Thomas Szasz whaleserrorsfeelings The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Thorstein Veblen errorsmistakehands We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable. Thomas Paine consistencyerrorsvices The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. Thomas Jefferson triumpherrorshumanity Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right. Thomas Merton sincerityerrorshumility The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity. Thomas Paine errorsrightsmen Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson presidentialerrorsmistake If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson safetyerrorschange The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. Thomas Merton errorswisdomlying This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson errorstruthwar When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? Thomas Sowell human-natureerrorssin From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom. Thomas Paine nationserrors A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected. Thomas Paine atheismerrorsmen What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Thomas Jefferson errorshypocritereligious Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. Thomas Merton giantserrorstree The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error. Thomas Jefferson errorsreligiousgiving I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. Thomas Jefferson often-iserrorsviews The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God. Thomas Paine errorsatheistmistake The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. Thomas Jefferson gossiperrorsmen You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. Tim Harford trial-and-errorerrorssuccessful«7980818283848586878889»
