Error Quotes - page 2

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. (John Locke)
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. View quote
John Locke
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. View quote
Charles Darwin
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. View quote
Leon Battista Alberti
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. View quote
Margaret Fuller
There is no original truth, only original error. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. (Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke)
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. View quote
Warren Zevon
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. View quote
George Sand
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. View quote
Louis Aragon
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. View quote
Kurt Gödel
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. View quote
Carl Jung
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. View quote
Hannah Arendt
From error to error one discovers the entire truth. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. View quote
Thomas Reid
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. View quote
Billie Jean King