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.

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

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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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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

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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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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

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No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

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I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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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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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

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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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signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

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

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The pleasing punishment that women bear.

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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

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