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Letter "H" » human error
«A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.»
«People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.»
Author: Florence King
| About:
America and Americans,
Dreams,
People
| Keywords:
American Dream, consequently, fantasize, fantasized, fantasizing, human error, switch
«One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve»
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
assumption, common cause, correlation, errors, human error, implies, invalid, invalids, reasoning
«All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apparent, apparently, at issue, breaking, breaking off, break off, fencing, human error, impatience, issue, premature, procedure, procedures
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
extended, human error, human intelligence, imperfection
«The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
admirable, French Revolution, human error, Louis, permanency, predicate, predicated, rely, systems, The Admirable, the French, The French Revolution, XIV
«If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
adjusted, human error, implemented, implementing, implements, suggested
«The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
human error, scarcely, The History of
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