Error quotes

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

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

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Error is always more busy than truth.