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We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
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The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth to you for restoration, confirmation, strengthening, and being established in Him.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.
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One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
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The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.
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Certainty is an enemy of truth: examination and reexamination are allies of truth.
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
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In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.
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There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.
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But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.
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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
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(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)
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[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.
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Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.
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A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.
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I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
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Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.
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See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.
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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
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Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
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Repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.
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This version of the facts having been restored, it only remains to say it is no better than the other and no less incompatible with the kind of creature I might just conceivably have been if they had known how to take me. So let us consider now what really occurred.
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All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.
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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
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We must apologise to the readers for returning with such insistence to the Robinson Crusoe and Friday story, which properly belongs to the nursery and not to the field of science - but how can we help it?
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The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.
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Fix, commit, condemn yourself
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Rebuke

Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression...
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.
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To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.
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He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World
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Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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I repent nothing,
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In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.
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Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.
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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
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Vindication is the privilege of the victorious
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Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
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One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)
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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
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A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.
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A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.
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The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
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It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins
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O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!
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The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power
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Rejects what is more great;
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There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.
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He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
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Inflation is repudiation.
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Apologetics is reason flying to the rescue of faith
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We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
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And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
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To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
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Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.
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Before we can progress in providing answers ... we have to repent of our questions.
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Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
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Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.
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One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.
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Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
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Repent means the pain again.
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When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.
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Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.
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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
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Always resent, never relent.
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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
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I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
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The justice I have received, I shall give back.
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We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so.
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[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.
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Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.