"The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error."
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"It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end."
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"Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees."
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"The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning."
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"We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth"
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"I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh."
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"The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication."
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"We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom."
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"Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?"
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"... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused."
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"Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment."
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"It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred."
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"Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors."
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"Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about."
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"It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth."
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"It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have the good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices. But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe."
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"Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended."
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"It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity.""
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"Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this."
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"[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error."
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