#erroneous

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#alone #annihilation #any #believing #belongs

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

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. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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