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“Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.”

Made Values Jesus Christ Middle Position Eternal Commitment Jesus Christ Errors Casts Surrender Compromise Contests Covenant Meek Contention Middle Ground

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.”

Knows Men Values Company Know How Errors Plato

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.”

Men Values Politics Economy Industry Labor Errors Agents Operations Analysis Liberalism

Author:Jean-Baptiste Say

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.”

Men Would Be Values Rocks Glory Errors Esteem Vanity Seducing Frivolous Scandalous

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

Giving May Truth Values Mistake Positive Thinking Encouragement Errors Subtle Inquiry Great Value

Author:Isaac Asimov

“In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound”

Different Values Pieces Errors Profound Complexes Various Chess Unusual Mistaken Bizarre Variables

Book:Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems

Source: Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems

“And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.”

Ifs Trying Reason Dream Values Lost Relation Errors Diseased

Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.”

Kind Life Is Certain Values Truth Is Errors Species

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power