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They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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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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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

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Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

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

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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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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

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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.

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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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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 do not find truth groveling through error.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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