Quotes about err
errors perfection evolution
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. Thomas Huxley
errors enemy reform
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Thomas Browne
errors groveling
We do not find truth groveling through error. Thomas S. Monson
errors sin human-nature
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
errors people revolution
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them. Thomas Jefferson
errors enquiry inquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
errors humanity debt
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
errors democrat unified
Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error. Tony Blair
errors perspective sometimes
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Simone Weil
errors progress
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth Swami Vivekananda
errors debt littles
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain. Thomas Malthus
errors tree giants
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. Thomas Merton
errors answers problem
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. Tim Powers
errors black comedy
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. Tom Stoppard
errors people trying
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them. Stefan Zweig
errors reason said
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
errors politics weapons
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
errors enemy enquiry
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
errors politics truth-is
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
errors childhood inmates
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
errors devil prejudice
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. Tryon Edwards
errors giving credit
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell
errors evil common
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved. Sophocles
errors intention commit
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention. Stand Watie
errors flesh gorgeous
I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. Sylvia Plath
errors differences hinduism
One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.
errors tiny imagine
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
errors perfection soul
It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.
errors personality neurosis
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not. Rollo May
errors evil looks
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
errors important littles
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed. Steve Allen
errors silence
There were grammatical errors even in his silence. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
errors atheism born
An error becomes an error when born as truth.