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“The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.”

Men Years Book Truth Is Doctors Twenties Errors Eight Something New Exhausted Distinguished

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!”

Ifs Men Church Decision Eternal Weight Errors Scripture Consent Pernicious Truth Of God Conceded

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”

People Has Beens Whole Law Desire Interest Judgment Errors Instance Comparison

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.”

Thinking Way Needs Wells Voice Realizing Roles Errors

Author:Cecilia Bartoli

“I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Hate Turns Christ Offers Highest Salvation Errors Proof Former Rejects Despise Make You Think Changing Your Mind

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.”

Humans May Views Human Nature Disease Errors Corruption Doctrine Cures Remedy Antidote

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system”

Men May Long Character Views Errors Graves Statements Conclusion Attributes God's Love Systematic Veneration

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.”

Wells Tree Errors Giants Grain Poisonous Greenhouses

Book:The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers

Source: The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers

“The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.”

People Mistake Industry Medicine Errors Medical Punishment Making Mistakes Physicians Prevention Impediments

Author:Lucian Leape

“It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.”

Clear Weapons Mass Destruction Errors Iraq Invasion Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Evaluation

Author:Stephen Harper

“It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.”

Ifs Country Done Form Sex Natural Example Terrible Thousand Normal Responsible Errors Instinct Impulse Crush Preoccupation Suppression Puritan Morbid Perversion

Book:Moonchild

Source: Moonchild

“Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.”

Way Ends Stories Foundation Errors Notes

Book:That Old Cape Magic

Source: That Old Cape Magic

“The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.”

People Thinking Men Wells Made Done Lasts Natural Technology Internet Ocean Jokes Resources Errors Scales Comparison Last Time Pacific Natural Resources Pacific Ocean

Author:Alan Kay

“In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.”

Source: Arrow in the blue: an autobiography

“Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality”

Reality Ignorance Weakness Errors Disaster Being The Best Negativity Evasion Acquiescence

Author:Jeff Buckley

“We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process”

Trying Made Ends Enough Problem Left Process Design Projects Errors Solve Programming Enough Time Rushing Software Engineering Design Process

Book:Composite/structured design

Source: Composite/structured design

“People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.”

People Long Stills Age Nations Childhood Needed Errors Accepted Peer Pressure

Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

“When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.”

Men Wisdom Passion Interest Views Numbers Opinion Advantage Prejudice Errors Selfish Locals Joints

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.”

People Ifs Way Wells Play Home Running Winning Loss Records Imagine Position Performances Baseball Errors Average Cards Eras Transparent Home Run Batting Baseball Cards

Author:Ray Dalio

“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.”

Five Percent Twenties Errors Golden Better Than You Twenty Five Golden Rule Do Unto Others

Author:Linus Pauling

“If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.”

Ifs Want Years States Facts Next Simple United United States Models Errors Rate Plus Unemployment Reflecting Minus Predicting Unemployment Rate

Book:The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science

Source: The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science

“I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

Thinking May Moments Remember Doubt Despair Harmony Errors Discord St Francis Of Assisi

Book:The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.”

Hard Individual Risk Hard Work Errors Enterprise Accountability Cooperation Korea Discouraging Concealing Magnifying Corporatism

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.”

Church Judging Amount Errors Size Offering Popularity Save Me

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of new evidence? Doubt and skepticism are signs of rationality. When we are too certain of our opinions, we run the risk of ignoring any evidence that conflicts with our views. It is doubt that shows we are still thinking, still willing to reexamine hardened beliefs when confronted with new facts and new evidence.”

Thinking Should Stills Ideas Facts Shows Running Certain Belief Views Opinion Doubt Risk Willing Conflict Evidence Errors Skepticism Rationality Hardened

Author:Diane Ravitch

“An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.”

Way Enemy Errors Cease

Book:The Reawakening

Source: The Reawakening

“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.”

Persons Would Be Pleasure Cry Errors Punishment Destroying Avoided Carelessness

Book:The Loser: A Novel

Source: The Loser: A Novel

“When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.”

Mankind Ignorance Errors Uncertainty Preservation Infancy

Book:Selected Writings: 1810-1822. Bibliography (p. [xxxvi]-xxxviii)

Source: Selected Writings: 1810-1822. Bibliography (p. [xxxvi]-xxxviii)

“It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.”

Believe I Believe Economy Seeing Economics Structure Errors Investing Stable Confession

Book:A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View

Source: A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View

“Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.”

Firsts Self Done Action Passion Secret Perfection Errors Confusion Delusion Impossibility Inaction Subjection Self Delusion

Book:Essays on the Gita

Source: Essays on the Gita

“As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.”

Kind Littles Guy Hate Games Stuff Mistake Errors Starting Margins Pitcher

Author:Tom Glavine

“The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.”

May Acceptance Errors Definitions Being True Merit Dependent Makers Dictionary Specialists Lexicographer

Book:Instead of a Book

Source: Instead of a Book

“Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.”

Years Past Poverty Mankind Thousand Errors Stupidity Deception Thousand Years

Book:Snow

Source: Snow

“I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.”

Ifs Persons War Mother Church Enemy Subjects Errors Corruption Be Good Mortals Acknowledge Infirmity

Author:King James I

“For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.”

Belief Understanding Black Creativity Creative Fundamentals Errors Western Journalist Assumption Mistaken Commentary Creative Music

Author:Anthony Braxton

“Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!”

Littles Records College Paper Errors Series Notes Magazines Polite Printed Fiasco Alumni

Author:Frank Bruni

“When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.”

Thinking Made Happens Night Causes Errors Sleepless Nights

Author:Louis van Gaal

“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.”

Remember Science Models Errors Practicals Modelling

Book:Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses

Source: Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses

“In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)”

Ifs Life Is Belief Religious Chance Possibility Errors Foolish Permanent Guarantees Elsewhere Venture Recognizing Religious Belief Religious Life

Book:Warranted Christian Belief

Source: Warranted Christian Belief

“The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.”

Ifs Should Children Happens Parent Teach Environment Teacher Quiet Errors Manifest Observers Intervention

Book:The child in the family

Source: The child in the family

“I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.”

“Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through”

Turns Loss Grief Lows Errors Redemption Savages Arrangements Affliction

Book:Basura y otros poemas

Source: Basura y otros poemas

“I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.”

Years Pain Lasts Easy Dollars Errors Billions Temptation Vulnerability Damage Forty Crash Null

Author:Tony Hoare

“My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.”

“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.”

People Way Today Past Remember Memories Grief Greater Too Much Habit Equal Opposites Errors Insight Fallen Repeats Fewer Epigrams Pundits Remembering The Past Misquoting

Author:David Hackett Fischer

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”

Inspirational Sometimes Facts Reality Truth Errors Species Transcendentalism Origin Of Species New Relationship

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.”

People Truth Evil Sides Half Effects Quiet Conflict Prejudice Errors Violent Cease Falsehood Both Sides Exaggerated Suppression Formidable

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.”

Truth Mankind Development Labor Errors Series Comprehension Thorough Ascending

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.”

Problem Choices Economic Policy Errors Investing Ideology Our Time Rivals Economic Policy

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.”

Character Certain Language Decision Fiction Records Behavior Elements Letters Function Errors Sentences Collections Alphabet Deviation

Author:Noy Holland

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