Quotes About Error

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.