"In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorâ€”a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism."

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Source : David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

David Brin

#Mistake Quotes #Errors Quotes #Self Quotes

“Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.”
“As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Memoï»¿ry was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
“I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.”
“I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.”
“I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.”
“Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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