Jacqueline Carey Quotes

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Passion, prejudice, and error, are characteristics of human nature ….. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice.

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don't say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

When the print revolution occurred 400 years ago, human beings lost a certain mental capacity, including a sense of memory. In Africa today, you meet people who still carry everything in their heads, the way we used to. We rely on telephone books, address books. We have to look up everything.

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition.

Truth is error burned up.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.