Top Erroneous Quotes
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
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Stephen Jay Gould
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
Letitia Landon
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
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Josiah Royce 
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Edward E. Barnard 
W. Somerset Maugham 
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Bertrand Russell All Erroneous Quotes
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 
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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
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Stephen Jay Gould
54% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
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
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
Herman Hesse
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset Maugham
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell
47% of people like this quote