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• Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

  Max Anders

  Risk, Doctrine, Moral

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• ... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

  Philip Yancey

  Mistake, People, Grace

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• If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Crush, Race, Play

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.64, Penguin

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• How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Moving, Book

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• When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Creativity, Play, Disappear

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• Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Reality, Stupidity

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• Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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• Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Risk, Information, Cognition

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• If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Catholic

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• My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.

  Robert Owen

  Children, Men, Quality

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forever, Desire, Immortality

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Reason, Said, Prove

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Effort, Vision

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Tiny, Trouble, Imagine

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Discovery, Joy, Labyrinth

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• It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

  Rajneesh

  Sometimes, Intellect

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• One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Fighting, Light, Hands

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• Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Love Is, Law, Balance

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• Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Government, Effort

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.239, Regnery Publishing

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• It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wise, Opponents

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• There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

  Leonard Read

  Prosperity, Greater

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• If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Over You, Faults, Deny

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• Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Risk, Misunderstood

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• The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

  Herodotus

  Loss, Undertakings, Begets

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