error

I alone seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent from all: my sect thou seest, now learn too late how few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

—John Milton

It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

—Georg Hegel

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

—Sigmund Freud

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

He who thinks little errs much.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

—Socrates

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

René Descartes

We know our Lord bears gently with the ignorant and erring, and it is not for us to judge how far the ignorance and error must reach before it passes the confines of His great loving-kindness.

—Amy Carmichael

Fundamentalism has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Spirit. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught.

—AW Tozer

In spite of the difficulties we encounter when we pray, prayer is a powerful and effective way to get right, stay right & stay free from error.

—AW Tozer

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

—Cicero

We live in a day in which false doctrine abounds on every hand and the only Christian who is safe from being led into error is the one who studies his Bible for himself daily.

—R. A. Torrey

I would rather believe and preach unpleasant truth than to believe and preach pleasant error.

—R. A. Torrey

God never led anyone astray yet, or into error yet; He leads out of darkness into light; He leads from bondage into liberty; He leads from error into truth.

—D. L. Moody

Love truth, but pardon error.

—Voltaire

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

—John Locke

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

—Nikolai Gogol