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“To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.”

World Facts Opinion Theory Habit Circumstances Bases Errors Wide Conclusion Data Investigation Uncertain Indispensable Framed Owing Adopting Diffusion

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.”

Men Difficult Habit Errors Unlearn

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.”

World Universe Belief Sides Objects Habit Argument Errors Atheist Contemporary Related Agency Encounters Magnitude Duration Belief In God Craftsman Artifacts Conceiving

Author:David Bentley Hart

“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”

Looks Matter Seems Law Evil Left Loses Justice Views Habit Citizens Gains Advantage Errors Point Of View Rulers Caution Disobedience

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Habit is the nursery of errors.”

Learning Habit Errors Nursery

Author:Victor Hugo

“My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.”

Men Children Made Reason Belief Language My Own Quality Seeing Taught Habit Foundation Errors Abandon

Book:The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

Source: The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”

Mind Has Beens Hard Difficult Principles Practice Habit Prejudice Errors Fixed Simplest

Author:Frances Wright

“When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”

Men Should Doe Force Silence Opinion Mines Habit Argument Errors Injury Endeavor Should I Listeners

Author:Thomas Jefferson