It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him no error without evil.
Since therefore no man is born without faults and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
Power must be used but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
In the late 1990s some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror namely massive atrocities 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States millions of refugees tens of thousands of people killed hideous repression that's international terror and we can go on and on.
Any government that supports protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
To kill an error is as good a service as and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact.
The first step toward finding God Who is Truth is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
When a scientist is ahead of his times it is often through misunderstanding of current rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day from some perspective appear prophetic.
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace fighting terrorism and working for social justice.