Careers Quote by Barry Hughart

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

— John Locke

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

— George Iles

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

— Mason Cooley

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the…

— Louis Aragon

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

— James Madison

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

— George Iles

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

— Francis Bacon

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

— Samuel Butler

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

— Carl Gustav Jung

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

— Benjamin Stillingfleet