Currents Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Errors are many, truth is unique.

— Pyotr Kapitsa

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

Many a truth is the result of an error.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

— Baruch Spinoza

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

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

— Thomas Paine

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about…

— Anonymous

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

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

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from…

— Thomas Binney