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- Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated
- Tyron Edwards
- To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
- Author Unknown
- Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
- H. L. Wayland
- I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
- Herbert B. Swope
- Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman
- Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
- Jawaharal Nehru
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
- Ken Keyes
- No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
- W. E. Gladstone
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