Errors Quote by Walter M. Miller, Jr

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

— Jeremy Taylor

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

— John Locke

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth.

— Aristotle

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

— John Locke

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of…

— Francis Bacon

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

— Herman Melville

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

— Winston Churchill

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy