How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham LincolnIn human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David ThoreauIt is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston ChurchillThe thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.
Margaret AtwoodTruth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis BaconThe word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich NietzscheThe discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin FranklinTrust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Christopher HitchensI used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Stephen HawkingGeorge Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
Christopher HitchensAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl JungTruth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Mark TwainHere’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.
Kanye WestI made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson MandelaIt is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas AdamsI had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
Bob UeckerA subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac AsimovI was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis PresleyThe world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas JeffersonI can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.
Kobe BryantEven a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry FordPeople have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.
Kanye WestFreedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma GandhiI’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
Robert KiyosakiShallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
Bill GatesThe trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald ReaganMyth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.
J. R. R. TolkienI love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.
Christopher HitchensSome people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Margaret AtwoodIt’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.
Richard BransonIn testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.
Lando NorrisIf I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.
Lando NorrisA common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas AdamsI never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. TrumanTruth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis BaconI’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
Muhammad AliI don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.
Vivienne WestwoodNine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. MenckenStupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan PoeAn inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
David HareError is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George WashingtonIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonWhoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. MaxwellThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireFor my part, it was Greek to me.
William ShakespeareI never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. TrumanWell, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
Richard M. NixonWhat is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
VoltaireHe that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin FranklinA frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.
Mark ZuckerbergIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas JeffersonI’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.
Angelina JolieNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkePeople take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.
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