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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
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." -- Michel de Montaigne
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. -- Janet Coleman
I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest. -- Dallin H. Oaks
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
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. -- Alexis Carrel
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. -- Hugh Walpole
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
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
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
Love truth, but pardon error. -- Voltaire
Love truth, and pardon error. -- Voltaire
Truth is error burned up. -- Norman O. Brown
Every error is truth abused. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We do not find truth groveling through error. -- Thomas S. Monson
There is no original truth, only original error. -- Gaston Bachelard
Error is but the shadow of the truth. -- Benjamin Stillingfleet
An error becomes an error when born as truth. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You correct an error by bringing truth to it. -- Wayne Dyer
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. -- Jean-Luc Godard
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -- Francis Bacon
Many a truth is the result of an error. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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 is better disengaged from error than torn from it. -- George Iles
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. -- Francis Bacon
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 before an afflicted truth -- Jeremy Taylor
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. -- James Agee
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. -- Thomas Carlyle
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. -- Jeremy Taylor
If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error? -- Andrew Sullivan
To truth there is no error. To life there is no death. -- Walter Starcke
It is better to be divided by truth than united in error. -- Bruce Bickel
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. -- Samuel Butler
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. -- Benjamin Franklin
Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy -- George Herbert
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. -- Arthur Keith
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth -- Benjamin D. Wiker
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth -- Benjamin D. Wiker
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. -- Josh Billings
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal. -- James Longstreet
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth. -- Victor Hugo
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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
Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. -- Siri Hustvedt
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. -- Adrian Rogers
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight. -- William C. Bryant
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
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. -- George Sand
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
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
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth. -- John H. Lienhard
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. -- Michel Foucault
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence Darrow
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence Darrow
Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. -- Arno C. Gaebelein
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. -- Simone Weil
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. -- John Locke
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! -- Alexander Pope
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught. -- Arthur W. Pink
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. -- Benjamin Whichcote
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. -- Lindley Murray
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. -- Thomas Browne
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. -- Thomas Aquinas
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. -- Leo Tolstoy
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. -- Allan Bloom
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. -- Lord Acton
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. -- Richard Cecil
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. -- Hans Reichenbach
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. -- James Hutton
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. -- Averroes
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit. -- Leo Errera

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