Error Quotes

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

“He who thinks little, errs much.”

“For the robust, an error is information.”

“Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.”

“Error is to the mind what poison is to the body.”

“''La propagande de l'erreur est libre: liberté de pensée!”

“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”

“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.”

“

Sometimes a way seems right,

but the end of it leads to death!

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“Wikipedia: Error”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“Just as the mind the erring sense believes,
The erring mind, in turn, the sense deceives.”

“Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.”

“En un descuido puede caer el mayor sabio, pero en dos no; y de paso, que no de asiento.”

“If you hastily affirm as true all that awaits confirmation as well as that which does not, you will not escape error.”

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

“Radical errors in the first concoction of the mind are not to be cured by the excellence of functions and remedies subsequent.”

“The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
And to the false, error and truth alike,
Error is worse than ignorance.”

“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search after truth.”

“Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.”