Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
Error itself may be happy chance.
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4. 5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.
DISABUSE, v. t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.