"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."

-- Sydney Smith

#Mistake Quotes #Errors Quotes #Alliances Quotes

“The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.”
“Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?”
“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.”

Source : "Building A Speech". Book by Sheldon Metcalfe, 1990.
“When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.”
“Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.”
“Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.”

Source : "Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy". Book by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 1994.
“It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.”

Source : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.54, Fordham University Press
“If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.”

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