A Quote by Saint Augustine
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
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Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.
He who thinks little errs much.
Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.
Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
One errs as long as one strives.
Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Man errs as long as he strives.
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.
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