Errors Quotes - Page 55
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA
William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.205, Tyché
William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (2001). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.178, The Minerva Group, Inc.
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.151, Simon and Schuster
William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”
William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.102
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.80, The Golden Sufi Center
Walter Starcke (1990). “Homesick for Heaven: You Don't Have to Wait”
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.98
Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”
Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt