Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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David Hume
The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that...
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Christopher Peter Grey
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
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Bryant McGill
...somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around.
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Lennox D.Lampkin
More Quotes By Isaac Newton
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
