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“Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.”

Thinking Should Kind May Common Errors Remembered Pedants Pedantry Useful Knowledge

Author:Albert J. Nock

“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".”

May Said Past Science Century Serious Errors Professors Historian 18th Century

Author:D. V. Ager

“In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.”

May Mean Self Suffering Violence Stage Errors Pursuit Doctrine Opponents Application Satyagraha Vindication Infliction

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.”

May Mercy Errors Perceive Obstinacy

Author:Michael Servetus

“The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.”

Way May Long Doe Facts Life Is Certain Evil Greater Danger Errors Expected Improvement Death Penalty

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

Ifs Firsts May Feelings Reality Fall Groups Objects Errors Instance Symbols Obedience Analysis Significance Attributes Propositions Unreal Admitting Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy