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“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.”

Ifs Mind Doe Art Reading Mistake Virtue Judging Demand Perception Errors Critics Worth Reading

Author:Lionel Trilling

“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

People Ifs Soul Enough Values Mistake Moral Serious Higher Perception Ordinary Dignity Technique Idiot Sensitive Bitterness Scream Ordinary People

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.”

Given Process Mistake Ignorance Behavior Perception Greed Replaced Given Up

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.”

Humans Ideas Self Matter Feelings Easy Animal Mistake Fit Behavior Perception Conscious No Idea Appropriate Being Human Criteria Self Conscious Inappropriate Lizards Revulsion

Author:Douglas Adams

“We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.”

Reality Mistake Limits Perception

Author:Bill Crawford

“The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only democrats who were and continue to be capable of learning from mistakes. A more appropriate question is to ask whether a country like China, which has been so incredibly successful economically, is actually inefficient in light of its environmental destruction and its corruption. In China's perception, however, the democratic model is doubtlessly inferior.”

Country Mistake Democracy Successful Perception Capable Destruction Democratic Democrat Environmental Corruption Nonsense Efficiency Contradictory Learning From Mistakes

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”

Thinking Mistake Perception Logic Inadequacy Sense Perception

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.”

Said Important Mistake Fool Kings Honor Perception Your Honor Attolia King Of Attolia

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”

Spiritual Mistake Vision Limits Perception Perceive Awe Perception Of The World Sense Perception Doors Of Perception Sensory Perception

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater