Errors Quote by Richard Mant

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— John Locke

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— James Madison

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you really want to be right (or at least improve the odds of being right), you have to start by acknowledging your fallibility,…

— Kathryn Schulz

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

— Samuel Warren Carey

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no…

— Benjamin Disraeli