#erroneous

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

#erroneous #error #fact #hallucination #judgment

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#error #extraordinarily #men #nature #opinion

There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of "the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything I want to you and for me to treat you any way that I want to, and for me to disrespect you and take advantage of you" while a true friendship is rooted in this principle: "the closer we are, the more respect I have for you, the better I will treat you, the higher I will regard you, the more good things I will wish for you." You will know someone is a true friend by basis of observing their actions towards you as the friendship grows deeper. A true friend will continue to hold you in higher and higher regard while the error of a friend will see your goodwill and newfound fondness as basis to do and say whatever he/she wants, that is disrespectful and non-beneficial to you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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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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