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“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”
Source: Public Opinion
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.”
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.”
“A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.”
“Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.”
“Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.”
“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
“Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books
“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
Source: Complete Essays
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: No Man Is an Island
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life
Source: The substance of man
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”