#errors

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#bonds #bursting #convention #disruptive #either

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

#errors #establishing #facts #imaginations #instead

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

#aside #beginning #cannot #comprehended #corrupt

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#deeply #done #errors #ever #i

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#circulation #dangerous #deal #errors #ever

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#correct #errors #i #interested #like

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#day #errors #event #every #every day

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