"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
~~~~~ Robert Jackson
Showing posts with label error. Show all posts
Showing posts with label error. Show all posts
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Thought for Today
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Thought for Today
"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
~~~~~ William Cullen Bryant
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Thought for Today
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
~~~~~ William Godwin
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Thought for Today
"Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself."
~~~~~ Vilfredo Pareto
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Thought for Today
"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on – the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."
~~~~~ Matthew Simpson
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Thought for Today
"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
~~~~~ Hugh Walpole
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Thought for Today
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
~~~~~ Robert Jackson
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Thought for Today
"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
~~~~~ William Cullen Bryant
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Thought for Today
"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
~~~~~ Hugh Walpole
Monday, December 24, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Thought for Today
"Admitting Error clears the Score,
And proves you Wiser than before."
~~~~~ Arthur Guiterman
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Thought for Today
"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
~~~~~ William C. Bryant
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Thought for Today
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
~~~~~ Bernard Baruch
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Thought for Today
"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on – the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."
~~~~~ Matthew Simpson
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thought for Today
"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error."
~~~~~ Elmer Davis
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Thought for Today
"Admitting Error clears the Score,
And proves you Wiser than before."
~~~~~ Arthur Guiterman
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thought for Today
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
~~~~~ George Orwell
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Thought for Today
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
~~~~~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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