Quotes About Error

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.