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"I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed."
"What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin."
"In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make."
"You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded."
"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it."
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
"Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not."
"It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism"
"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to."
"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
"I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation."
"But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience."
"The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported."
"Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business."
"The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range."
"The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence."
"Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
"One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error."
"The smallest errors are always the best."
"The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims."
