"Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste."

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Source : Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Errors Quotes

“When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.”
“Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.”
“I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.”
“I'm here today because I hated everything else.”
“Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.”
“Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.52, Oxford University Press
“I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there”
“There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...”

Source : "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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