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“Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honest to choose the right.”

Character Law Nature Decision Honest Honesty Example Errors Strive Finals Oneself Trials Rejects Daily Life Trial And Error Demeaning God And Nature

Author:Arthur Trudeau

“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.”

Men Nature Opinion Position Errors

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.”

Years Self Earth Form Order Nature Animal Periods Capable Happenings Errors Billions Trials Endless Upset Magnificent Sequence Renewal Magnitude Trial And Error

Author:Thomas Berry

“There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.”

Light Fall Nature Secret Share Pure Errors Faults Graves Truthful Severe Competent Trifling

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.”

Science Nature Design Evolution Errors Steady Blunders

Author:Oliver Sacks

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.”

Knows Humans Growth Nature Results Quality Failing Human Nature Revolution Development Errors Rely Rebellious Admirable French Revolution

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

Persons Nature Mistake Ignorance Fool Philosophical Errors Persevere

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.”

Knows Life Mind Ideas Play Body Law Science Certain Nature Novel Progress Truth Is Regard Errors Graves Commit Organs Audacious

Author:Francois Magendie