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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much. -- Wayne Dyer
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. -- Peter Drucker
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum. -- Franz Grillparzer
Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much. -- Wayne Dyer
All sweeping assertions are erroneous. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. -- Hermann Hesse
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. -- Bertrand Russell
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. -- Thomas Hobbes
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
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. -- Ulrich Beck
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. -- Maya Angelou
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
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
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
We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. -- Abraham Lincoln
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage. -- Amory Lovins
I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources. -- Michele Bachmann
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me. -- Jason Katims
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. -- Edward E. Barnard
I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways. -- Alanis Morissette
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. -- Abraham Lincoln
To be human is erroneous. -- Karl Kraus
self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal. -- Ambrose Bierce
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas. -- Adriano Celentano
I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly. -- Herb Kelleher
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous. -- Albert Einstein
Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences. -- Steve Allen
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. -- Voltaire
All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression. -- Luc de Clapiers
I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false -- Peter Joseph
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs -- Albert Bandura
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. -- Hermann Hesse
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's. -- Stephen King
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. -- Ernst Mayr
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. -- Alexander Hamilton
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins. -- Grenville Kleiser
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. -- Ambrose Bierce
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. -- Kurt Tucholsky
The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet. -- Murray Gell-Mann
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin". -- Robert Bellarmine
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. -- Samuel Johnson
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it. -- Pope Innocent III
The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego. -- Carol Anthony
The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you. -- Robert Holden
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. -- Aaron T. Beck
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed. -- Nikola Tesla
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous -- Frederick Pollock
The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. -- Frances Xavier Cabrini
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. -- Ludwig von Mises
A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. -- Gautama Buddha
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts. -- Thomas Hobbes
There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. -- James A. Millward
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. -- Herbert Spencer
Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. -- Steve Jobs
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name. -- Jesse Jackson
I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous. -- John F. Kerry
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at. -- Richard Russo
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth. -- Pierre Bayle
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous. -- Michael Faraday
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous. -- Hans Eysenck
Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path. -- Gautama Buddha
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life. -- Edward Gibbon
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. -- Orson Scott Card
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion. -- Thomas Hobbes
Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them. -- Uriah Smith
Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence, neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind. -- Edward Gibbon
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. -- John Rawls

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