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"As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them."
"Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction."
"Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into"
"Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality"
"Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience."
"You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well."
"Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make."
"The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more."
"I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky."
"You correct an error by bringing truth to it."
"Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error."
"Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight."
"I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error."
"For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error."
"Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit."
"The pleasing punishment that women bear."
"Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature."
"The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?"
"There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth."
"There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth."
