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May these quotes about Error inspire and motivate you.
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
The world is indebted for all triumphs
which have been gained by reason and humanity
over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Errors of opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
- Anais Nin
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
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