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• All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Evil, Advice

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• It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Believe, Men

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• The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, People, Trial And Error

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Reason

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man”, p.47

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• The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Planning, Strategy, Process

  "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.

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• To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Sin, Diligence, Mediocre

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• Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

  Jane Austen

  People, Feelings, Unhappy

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

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• I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

  Ken Wilber

  Smart, Believe, Mind

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• Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Glasses, Air, House

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.109, Ignatius Press

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• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

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• The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Tendencies, Dangerous

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are realms of American life in which government has undermined the operation of market forces and caused artificially high prices. These are two arenas in which the Democrats now propose to do exactly the wrong thing. Their reform reinforces old errors and will infinitely compound the problem of rising prices.

  Mona Charen

  Rising Prices, Two, Issues

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• It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Acceptance, Done, World

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• Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

  Carl Sagan

  Self Questioning, Criticism, Scientific Method

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sound, Would Be, Bagpipes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.21, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Philosophy, Loss, Sky

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• More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, People, Mind

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• It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Oneself

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.53, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to lose, that is, borrowed funds; and (3) Making hasty decisions. Each of these actions violates one or more biblical principles... Together they constitute a sin called greed.

  Larry Burkett

  Biblical, Thinking, Greed

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

  Steve Farrar

  Distance, Bowling, Increase

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• A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Ignorance, Doe, Common

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• Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

  Chico Xavier

  Thinking, Needs, Equilibrium

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• To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Growth, Possibility

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• ... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Space, Effort, Add

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Rights, Gone Away

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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