Earnest Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It…

— J. M. Coetzee

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The truth is the truth. ‘Rarely pure and never simple,’ as Oscar Wilde would say.”

— Kami Garcia

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde”

— Vi Keeland

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Oscar Wilde’s observation of the truth being rarely pure and never simple.”

— Phil Mason

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth…

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Thomas Jefferson