Albert Einstein Quotes, Errors Quotes, Long Quotes

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Errors Quotes , Long Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Errors Quotes , Perception Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Errors Quotes , Views Quotes

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Errors Quotes , Long Quotes

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Errors Quotes , Design Quotes

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Wall Quotes , Errors Quotes

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Truth Quotes , Errors Quotes

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Errors Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Errors Quotes , Opinion Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Errors Quotes , Kind Quotes

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Errors Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Errors Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Errors Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Errors Quotes , Forever Quotes

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Errors Quotes

Error is created; truth is eternal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Truth Quotes , Errors Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Science Quotes , Errors Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Errors Quotes , Tiny Quotes

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Errors Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Faith Quotes , Errors Quotes