Quotes About Error

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Malheureusement, en un sens, les religions divisent les hommes. On est persuadé que sa religion contient la vérité du monde et que les autres sont dans l'erreur. C'est absolument faux

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that we beguiled those who little thought what we were doing, and much disliked it.

again and again we fall hopelessly into the foolish error of thinking that Nature sets a special stamp on outstanding individuals so that they may be recognized at a glance.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

We do not find truth groveling through error.