Pastoral Resources

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.