A Quote by David Brin

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

David Brin

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Against Antidote Criticism Cure Deception Error Foolish Foolish Mistakes Found Grand History Just Just One Making Mistakes Partial Remedy Repeating Self Self-Deception

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David Brin
American - Author
Born: October 6, 1950

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

William John Locke

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

David Brin

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

David Brin

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

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While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Andy Stanley

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

Sarah McLachlan

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

Samuel Johnson

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Bill Hybels

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

Ryan Holiday

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

Hosea Ballou

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

George Steiner

It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.

Richard Carrier

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

Charles Spurgeon

There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.