Intelligence Quote by Alexis Carrel

Many a truth is the result of an error.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting…

— Charles Babbage

Errors are many, truth is unique.

— Pyotr Kapitsa

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

— Benjamin Wiker

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from…

— Thomas Binney

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

— Francis Bacon

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to…

— Jules Verne

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

— Anonymous

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining…

— Walter Raleigh

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with;…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe