Chiefs Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Jean Rostand

Abhorring error is not necessarily positive.

— Ellen Ullman

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

— Averroes

“all theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.”

— Neil Postman

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

— Maurice Allais

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

— Jim Rohn

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable…

— John Rawls

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

— Edward de Bono