Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Men Quotes, Errors Quotes

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

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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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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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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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We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

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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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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. . . .

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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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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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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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