Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Votes: 2
George HerbertThe stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. Votes: 2
Georg BrandesIn all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. Votes: 2
Hugh WalpoleHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Votes: 2
Thomas JeffersonBe calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy Votes: 0
George HerbertA stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAn error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. Votes: 0
Yevgeny ZamyatinOur great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. Votes: 0
Siri HustvedtI love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. Votes: 0
James A. GarfieldThe thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleFive hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth. Votes: 0
John H. LienhardUnrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. Votes: 0
George SandIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. Votes: 0
Richard Henry PrattAll faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiResponding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. Votes: 0
Bill JohnsonTruth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheError's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. Votes: 0
William C. BryantAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielHe that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. Votes: 0
Benjamin WhichcoteSole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Votes: 0
Alexander PopeError is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. Votes: 0
John LockeLet the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. Votes: 0
Arno C. GaebeleinContradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Votes: 0
Simone WeilAntithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error. Votes: 0
Adrian RogersError has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliThe greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. Votes: 0
Thomas AquinasAll error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonMany-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Votes: 0
Thomas BrowneIt's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth. Votes: 0
Reinhold NiebuhrError is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth Votes: 0
Leo Nikolaevich TolstoyError is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyError, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonIf error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. Votes: 0
Hans ReichenbachAn army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. Votes: 0
AverroesHe who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. Votes: 0
Horace MannOne man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end. Votes: 0
Philip SchaffWho is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth? Votes: 0
Karl Kraus