Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of tria...l and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident--the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to disc...over through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,... She can use her intuition instead of her brain, But she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish, and there must certainly be analogies for truth and error in... jellyfish life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source; for that reason one must often not do so...mething to the detriment of error since one would do also something detrimental to truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all thing...s, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the consequence of this institution that not a school- house, a public pew, a bridge, a pound, a mill-dam, hath been set up,... or pulled down, or altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result. And the people truly feel that they are lords of the soil. In every winding road, in every stone fence, in the smokes of the poor-house chimney, in the clock on the church, they read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The same Grim giving to do over for them both.... She dared no more than ask him with her eyes How was it with him for a second trial. And with his eyes he asked her not to ask. They had given him back to her, but not to keep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »