Alternatives Quote by Rene Descartes

“Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole…

— William James

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 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

I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command…

— Thomas Jefferson

If I fail, I shall fail; only to succeed. Therefore If I fail, I shall fail; only to achieve. Its a mere stumble -…

— Uriël Theunis

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our…

— John Locke

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 becomes an error when born as truth.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we…

— Robert Harris

“We must know the truth; and we must avoid error,--these are our first and great commandments as would-be knowers; but they are not two…

— William James