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In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. By David Brin History Error Grand Foolish Mistakes

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. By Sigmund Freud String Content Reproaches People Leads

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. By Joseph Glanvill Disputation Verity Precipitancy Stir Noise

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. By Isaac Watts Disputation Truth Carries Mind Calm

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it. By Benjamin Franklin Sting Truth Reproach

The Truth is doubted. By Lailah Gifty Akita Truth Doubted

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye. By George Santayana America Speculation Feeling Arguments Peculiarities

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be. By Epictetus Illnatured Envious Conceited Ignorant Detracting

Gentleman, we're all cruel, we're all monsters, we all make men weep and mothers, and babes at the breast, but of all, let it be settled here, now, of all I am the lowest reptile! I've sworn to amend, and every day I've done the same filthy things. I understand now that such men as I need a blow, a blow of destiny to catch them as with a noose, and bind them by force from without. Never, never should I have risen of myself! But the thunderbolt has fallen. I accept torture of accusation, and my public shame; I want to suffer and by suffering I shall be purified. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gentleman Cruel Monsters Mothers Breast

What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments. By Fela Durotoye Arguments Results Owe Critics Explanations

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge. By Theodore M. Burton Atonement Saviors Repentance Refuge Beautiful

This does not mean that the one presenting the hypothesis should be resolute to disbelieve his or her postulate but rather the person should be resolute to leave the expressed opinion should they be thoroughly convinced of its lack of accuracy and poignant truth. Whether this truth is made through poetic license and artistic dramatic presentation or through clinical analysis of facts or both, the truth must be embraced not merely denied by blind faith of either new atheism or religious ideals. New or old is of no consequence, only truth and compassion are of value. By Leviak B. Kelly Resolute Truth Presenting Hypothesis Disbelieve

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. By Carl Sagan Challenging Prodding Seeking Small Persistent

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. By Socrates Refute Prefer Refuted Greater Good

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations. By Henri Bergson Time Lost Philosophy Remains Attacks

The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth to you for restoration, confirmation, strengthening, and being established in Him. By Robin Bertram Cost Promise Confirmation Strengthening Fires

True repentance always involves reform. By Hosea Ballou True Reform Repentance Involves

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge. By Etienne De L'amour Knowledge Shadow Scepticism Dispelled Light

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. By Leo Strauss Understood Refute

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised. By Henri De Lubac Marturioa Hour Decline Witness Coming

Certainty is an enemy of truth: examination and reexamination are allies of truth. By Peter Boghossian Truth Certainty Examination Enemy Reexamination

If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight. By George Henry Lewes Theology Philosophy Views Adherents Echo

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. By Confucius Friends Frequent Distant Reproofs Make

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation. By Ambrose Bierce Theology Damned State Luckless Mortal

But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light. By Albrecht Durer Error Truth Learnt Day Order

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Truths Renovated World Renovation Ark

(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158) By Rebecca Goldstein Conclusion Order Refute Put Argument

Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel. By Hugh B. Brown Revelation John Fact History Apostasy

anthrapologize FW 151.7 v. Express regret or apologize for the science of man or anthropology. So many mistakes, unintentional and sometimes not, have been made in the study of human origins and development, especially racial, along with customs and beliefs, that some apologies are needed. By Bill Cole Cliett Anthrapologize Express Anthropology Mistakes Unintentional

[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin. By Bertrand Russell Share Doubt Begin Refutation Piece

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness. By Theodore M. Burton Repentance Forgiveness Change Behavior Invites

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind By Eve Berlin Missed Opportunity Repentance Leaves

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game. By Karl Popper Bold Unjustified Anticipations Thought Nature

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. By Michel De Montaigne Repentance Fantasies Denying Opposition

He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error. By Pope Leo I Error Testifies Endeavors Correct

I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him. By George Washington Errors Bear Hear Imputed Real

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance. By Fred A. Hartley Jr. Repentance Chance Word

See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out. By William Shakespeare Truth Reach Bias Bait Falsehood

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon. By Deborah Sampson Notwithstanding Supreme Judge Repentance Offenses

I hear them marvel at my workmy indignant science. I hear them call out in fear of what they see. And there are some gentlemen who doubt what I will tell them. They call me a liar and a charlatan or a quack. But in time the methods of science that I now employ to convince people will surely set them freealas, this I cannot explain to the angry fools. (Spencer Black) By E.b. Hudspeth Hear Marvel Workmy Indignant Science

[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence. By David Hume Unsatisfied Sceptic Thing Perish Discourse

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. By Jean-Paul Sartre Ideas Reflection Pairs Contradict Opposition

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced. By Aldous Huxley Started Richer Convictions Certainties Journey

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law. By William Shakespeare Tis Surmises Awake Law Condemned

We declare to the world that the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth ... We invite all to listen to the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ from us. Then you can compare the glorious message with what you may hear from others, and you can determine which is from God and which is from man. By L. Tom Perry Jesus Christ Gospel Restored Earth

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. By Stephen Jay Gould Honorable Science Correction Errors Count

Repose, v.i. To cease from troubling. By Ambrose Bierce Repose Troubling Cease

To other scientists, the scientist who corrects a colleague's error, or cites good reasons for seriously doubting his or her conclusions, performs a noble deed, like a Zen master who boxes the ears of a novice straying from the meditative path, although scientists correct one another more as equals than as master and student. By Neil Degrasse Tyson Zen Master Error Conclusions Performs

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed. By Horace Greeley Life Principles Review Memory Recreant

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins. By Georg Cantor Ruins Beautiful Proof Lies

This version of the facts having been restored, it only remains to say it is no better than the other and no less incompatible with the kind of creature I might just conceivably have been if they had known how to take me. So let us consider now what really occurred. By Samuel Beckett Restored Version Facts Remains Incompatible

All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small. By Peter Medawar Admittance Scientists Colleagues Minds Equipped

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. By Karl Barth Church Scientific Dogmatics Devote Criticism

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place. By J.i. Packer Repentance Savior Past Heart Place

We must apologise to the readers for returning with such insistence to the Robinson Crusoe and Friday story, which properly belongs to the nursery and not to the field of science - but how can we help it? By Friedrich Engels Robinson Crusoe Friday Story Science

The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution. By Mike Murdock Restitution Proof True Repentance

Fix, commit, condemn yourself By Jane Austen Fix Commit Condemn

Let us beware of repentance without evidence. By J.c. Ryle Evidence Beware Repentance

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines. By Galileo Galilei Philosophy Disputes True Made False

Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance. By Michael Faraday Occasionally Reservation Frequently Exercise Judgment

As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc. By Denis Kearney Passages Trusting Dispute Suggested Disputed

Once again I was thunderstruck - but this time by a feeling of profound relief, for I had been redeemed from oblivion. More, the error that caused me to live as an unwitting impostor for so many years had been corrected at last. I had been made whole as a person - not again but for the very first time. By Daniel Quinn Thunderstruck Relief Oblivion Feeling Profound

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. By Thomas Henry Huxley Justification Faith Verification Man Science

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. By John C. Polanyi Authority Questioned Flow Science Exists

Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration. By D. Todd Christofferson Repentance Divine Smile Faces Speak

To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another. By Cornelius Van Til Presuppositions Reasoning Case Circular Admit

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. By Charles Caleb Colton Truths Errors Men Difficult Task

We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it. By Neill F. Marriott Gospel Truth Restored Ready Defend

He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World By Rudyard Kipling World Rebukes Rebuked

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you. By King Solomon Mockers Wise Rebuke Hate Love

The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own. By William Rawle Man Pressed Trial Innocent Awful

Scepticism is the first step towards truth. By Denis Diderot Scepticism Truth Step

I repent nothing, By Emily St. John Mandel Repent

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it. By Leon R. Kass Cases Crucial Repugnance Wisdom Emotional

Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? By Pythagoras Day Sleep Fall Thy Eyes

Vindication is the privilege of the victorious By Jelle Peters Vindication Victorious Privilege

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. By Ludwig Von Mises Scientific Beliefs Criticism Nobler Task

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Defame Reproaches Praise Praises

One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70) By Jerry A. Fodor Condition Critical Reductio Man Modus

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil. By Lao-Tzu Turn Method Correction Distortion Evil

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. By David Brin Reciprocal Accountability Criticism Error Antidote

Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, butencourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of hissoul, refreshed by water. By Nikolai Gogol Words Itdoes Reproof Misfortune Butencourage

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. By Michel De Montaigne Repentance Fancies Recanting Opposition Lead

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions. By Karl Mannheim Hen Discipline Inclusive Presuppositions Empirical

Within this work are places where you will see I have done some unforgivably stupid things; here I can say only that I am not perfect. Throw stones if you must, but have a care for your own house! I also offer a part-excuse, part-explanation: I am subject to influences from my most recent meals. I have not edited those parts to make myself seem better than I am; they stand as they were written. By Garon Whited Things Perfect Work Places Unforgivably

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground. By Thomas Aquinas Faith Demonstrable Ground Man Remind

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit. By James Boswell Feet Sceptick Truths Shoes Received

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so. By Thomas Hardy Resolution Vigorous Expression Coincide Greatest

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. By Edgar Allan Poe Redresser Wrong Unredressed Retribution Overtakes

If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Fact Truth Feed Portcullis Doubtand

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. By Honore De Balzac Reproach Honest Praise

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins By Augustus Hopkins Strong Repentance Doubted Genuine Sin Sins

Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices. By Elizabeth Chandler Worry Repiled Voices Argue

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance! By Margaret Mary Alacoque Saviour Thou Repentance Shouldst Long

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power By Pope Francis Battles Truth Church Apologists Crusaders

In this wicked world, and in these evil times, the Church through her present humiliation is preparing for future exaltation. She is being trained by the stings of fear, the tortures of sorrow, the distresses of hardship, and the dangers of temptation; and she rejoices only in expectation, when her joy is wholesome. In this situation, many reprobates are mingled in the Church with the good, and both sorts are collected as it were in the dragnet of the gospel;228 and in this world, as in a sea, both kinds swim without separation, enclosed in nets until the shore is reached. There the evil are to be divided from the good; and among the good, as it were in his temple, 'God will be all in all. By Augustine Of Hippo Church Good World Times Exaltation

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic. By Margaret Oliphant Ears Skeptic Effectual Showing Weakness

Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of "criteria" for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no "object" that has not stood the test of criticism By Max Scheler Opinions Criticism Convictions Arrived Direct

But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough. By William Bayliss Time Untenable Hesitation Giving Position

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. By John Milton Till Vision Truth Pitch Tent