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Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”

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“What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“From error to error one discovers the entire truth.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”

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Author:Hugh Walpole

“Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

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Author:Francis of Assisi

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.”

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Author:Adrian Rogers

“Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.”

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Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.”

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Book:Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

Source: Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits that he is likely wrong, and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”

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Author:Rene Daumal

“It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors”

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Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”

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Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.”

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Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.”

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Book:Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Source: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.”

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Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“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 for truth. So it does more harm than good.”

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Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.”

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Book:So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.”

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Author:Roger Bacon

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