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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

Success, Humble, Makes

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

Fact, Judgment, Based

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset Maugham

Nature, Men, Opinion

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes

May, Same, Conscience

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Assertions, Sweeping

A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
Jeffrey Kluger

After, Else, Child

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Stephen Jay Gould

Best, Question, Stories

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
Herman Hesse

Thinking, Spring, Same

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
Ulrich Beck

Power, Everything, Together

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
Josiah Royce

Men, Find, Create

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
Pamela Stephenson

Good, True, Thought

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
James Prescott Joule

Power, Alone, Believing

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.
Edward E. Barnard

May, Possible, Actually

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