#errors

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#last #mankind #resort #then #truths

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#errors #life #remorse #courage

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#experience #failure #learning-from-mistakes #mistakes #richelle

We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#experience #terrors #experience

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#purposeful-errors #tiredness #funny

I’m not going to lecture you on the error of your ways. Not until you fetch me a podium and a microphone. I’ll also need a screen, a projector, and a laser pointer. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#errors #funny #humor #laser #lecture

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#errors #technology #technology

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#been #committed #consequence #errors #failures

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#breakfast #dreams #insist #people #table