Quotes About Error

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Truth is error burned up.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.