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“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into”

Humans Turns Perfection Errors Linked

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.”

Men Long States Earth Heaven Mistake Teach Perfection Errors Saint Theology Divinity Nothing New

Author:Frances Osborne

“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”

“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”

Ifs Men Life Real Wisdom Lasts Imagination Opinion Strange Depends Perfection Logic Errors Worldly Applause Fallacy Weird Life

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error”

Men World Mean Real Light Humanity Animal Ignorance Honor Glory Perfection Errors Unity Ignorant Guidance Identical Threshold Felicity Bounty Baha Baha I Light Life

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.”

Science Process Imagine Conditions Depends Evolution Perfection Constant Errors Tendencies Imagine That Organisms Adaptation Modification Remodeling

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.”

May Littles Mistake Perfection Errors Neighbor Flirting

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

“The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.”

Men Political Wise Fool Perfection Errors

Author:William Blake

“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

“There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist”

Honest Perfection Errors Mere Icy Stylist There Is Hope

Book:Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art

Source: Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art

“To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.”

Knows Way Reason Done Sides Example Masters Circumstances Resources Perfection Errors Satisfied Right Thing Requirements Right Way Both Sides Right Time Anticipate Impediments Courteous

Author:Marshall Field

“Perfection is a polished collection of errors.”

Perfection Errors Collections Polished

Author:Mario Benedetti

“It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.”

Firsts Persons Different Soul Progress Stage Higher Perfection Errors Passing Passings Rejects Passing Through

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.”

Firsts Artist Hours Talent Keys Picks Perfection Fundamentals Errors Expecting Brushes Sculptors Basics Palette Chisels

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin