![[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.](/assets/img/quote-photos/montesquieu-lifted-the-veil-from-the-venerable-errors-which-enslaved-opinion-a.jpg)
Related Quotes
errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
errors obvious
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Clint Eastwood
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
errors speech opinion
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? Bertrand Russell
errors crank
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
errors commit ifs
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
veils rich myth
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. C. S. Lewis
veils confession secrecy
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. Bill Vaughan
veils again-and-again versions
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong. David Icke
veils arms opinion
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him. David Hume
veils
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. Aiden Wilson Tozer
veils events moments
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. Elie Wiesel
veils spirituality hiding
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Alfred Nobel
veils faces eternity
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! Alexander Smith
veils littles infinity
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile. Conor McPherson
ways
There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press. Emma Roberts
ways
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. Annie Leibovitz
way philanthropy plus
Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better. Cecil Rhodes
way want knows
Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants. Cecelia Ahern
way introversion sociability
My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion. Carrie Fisher
way satisfying
Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? Carl Rogers
way gravestone hard
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.' Bette Davis
way hell one-way
There's only one way to work -- like hell.
way nine persons
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. Antoine Rivarol