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“Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.”

Believe Hands Science Seeing Source Illusion Errors Circles Vicious Fallacy Vicious Circles

Author:Clifford Allbutt

“Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.”

Knows Firsts Persons Spirit Religion Christianity Study Source Holy Errors Holy Spirit Fanaticism

Book:THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Source: THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.”

Ifs Stills Father Powerful Records Havens Information Particular Brother Theory Source Evolution Dad Claims Independent Structure Errors Locals Observation Bankruptcy Unified Inference

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.”

Truth Certain Liberty Violence Strange Source Errors

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.”

Has Beens Political Opinion Economy Source Depends Demand Errors Proportion Commodity Axioms Political Economy Supply And Demand

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.”

“Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.”

Virtue Source Errors

Book:The Recess

Source: The Recess

“We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".”

Doe Facts Mother Dangerous Source Reflection Responsible Errors Ethical Trifles Mother Nature Advertisements Lapses

Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.”

Men Light Eye Greatness Source Higher Labor Difficulty Relation Errors Painful His Eyes Great Men Spheres Corrections Vigilant

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.”

Truth Science Atheism Source Absolutes Errors Pursuit Absolute Truth

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.”

Two Failing Source Advantage Errors Data Sufficient

Author:Bryan Caplan

“We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.”

“A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.”

People Knows Done Reading Know How Source Errors

Author:Rudolf Flesch

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”

“Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.”

Brain Source Errors Opponents Rebuke

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.”

Knows Persons Doe Source Errors Intellect

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”

Self Source Errors Seeking Detours Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale