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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Errors Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.

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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

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We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

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Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

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A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

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For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

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