“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”
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“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”
Source: My confession; My religion; The Gospel in brief
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.”
“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”
Source: Public Opinion
“There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.”
“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
Source: Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive
Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism
“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton
Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings
“Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!”
“The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
“An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.”
“He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.”
“The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.”
Source: Science And Health
“Progress is the exploration of our own error.”
Source: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.”
“Genius is the error in the system.”
Source: Paul Klee
“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”
Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects
Source: Leon Battista Alberti O Painting
“Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...”
“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.”