"Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction."
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"One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors."
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"It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth."
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"In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not."
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"Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale."
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"All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error."
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"God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him."
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"My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application."
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"It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways."
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"Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa."
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"It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good."
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"Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error."
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"Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish."
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"To be human is erroneous."
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"I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought."
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"It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected."
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"Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth."
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"In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time."
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"Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time."
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"An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue."
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