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Letter "E" » erroneous
«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| Keywords:
absurdity, contradiction, erroneous, erroneous belief, evident, existent, faculties, namely, Pleasure and Pain, self evident, standard, substance, supposition, The Standard, unreal, untrue
«The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
erroneous, good story, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, stories
«A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
based, Basing, erroneous, error, fact, hallucination, hallucinations, judgment, on base
«A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.»
«Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, conclusively, declared, erroneous, scoundrel, some other
«What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
correctly, erroneous, madness, perceptions, reason
«The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Ideas,
Success
| Keywords:
complacent, egotistic, erroneous, for the most part, spoils
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