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When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .
Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.
It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.
When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
People don't object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it's spying.
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.