Pastoral Resources

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.