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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. -- Paul de Man
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. -- Thomas Carlyle
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. -- Matthew Simpson
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. -- Victor Hugo
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. -- Thomas Paine
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. -- James Agee
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. -- George Herbert
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. -- Georg Brandes
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. -- Hugh Walpole
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. -- Alexis Carrel
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. -- Barbra Streisand
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. -- William Ellery Channing
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas Huxley
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. -- Charles Darwin
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen. -- Michael Servetus
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. -- Publilius Syrus
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. -- Margaret Fuller
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. -- Thomas Merton
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. -- Kelly Miller
Truth is error burned up. -- Norman O. Brown
Every error is truth abused. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Love truth, but pardon error. -- Voltaire
Love truth, and pardon error. -- Voltaire
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Error is created; truth is eternal. -- William Blake
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. -- Victor Hugo
Truth is one, but error is manifold. -- Simone Weil
Error is always more busy than truth. -- Hosea Ballou
Custom without truth is error grown old. -- Tertullian
We do not find truth groveling through error. -- Thomas S. Monson
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no original truth, only original error. -- Gaston Bachelard
Error is but the shadow of the truth. -- Benjamin Stillingfleet
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -- Francis Bacon
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud
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You correct an error by bringing truth to it. -- Wayne Dyer
An error becomes an error when born as truth. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Many a truth is the result of an error. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it. -- George Iles
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. -- Carl Jung
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth. -- Marcel Proust
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. -- Francis Bacon
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. -- Benjamin Franklin
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. -- James Agee
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. -- Cyprian
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth -- Carl Jung
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. -- Jeremy Taylor
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth -- Jeremy Taylor
It is better to be divided by truth than united in error. -- Bruce Bickel
To truth there is no error. To life there is no death. -- Walter Starcke
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. -- Samuel Butler
If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error? -- Andrew Sullivan
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal. -- James Longstreet
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. -- Josh Billings
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. -- Arthur Keith
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." -- Michel de Montaigne
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth. -- Victor Hugo
Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy -- George Herbert
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth -- Benjamin D. Wiker
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. -- Samuel Butler
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth -- Swami Vivekananda
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth. -- Mark Twain
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth -- Benjamin D. Wiker
Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. -- Siri Hustvedt
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. -- Georges Duhamel
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. -- James A. Garfield
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. -- Adrian Rogers
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. -- Bill Johnson
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. -- William C. Bryant
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. -- Richard Henry Pratt
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. -- Thomas Jefferson
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. -- George Sand
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth. -- John H. Lienhard
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. -- Arno C. Gaebelein
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught. -- Arthur W. Pink
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. -- Michel Foucault
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence Darrow
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. -- Simone Weil
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence Darrow
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! -- Alexander Pope
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. -- John Locke
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. -- Benjamin Whichcote
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error. -- Adrian Rogers
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. -- Thomas Aquinas
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. -- Lindley Murray
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. -- Thomas Browne
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. -- Allan Bloom
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. -- Leo Tolstoy
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. -- Richard Cecil
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. -- Lord Acton
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. -- Averroes
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. -- James Hutton
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. -- Hans Reichenbach
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. -- George Iles
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. -- Janet Coleman

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