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Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness, while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainly are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretence.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wise to-day than he was yesterday.
The copy-books tell us that “to err is human”. That is wrong. To err is inhuman, to be holy is to live in the straight line of duty and of truth to God’s life in every intrinsic existence.
My principal method for defeating error and heresy, is, by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares; but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
Wrong conduct is far more powerful to produce erroneous thinking, than erroneous thinking to produce wrong conduct.
Error commonly has some truth in what it affirms, is wrong generally in what it denies.
Half the truth will very often amount to absolute falsehood.
No tempting form of error is without some latent chamr derived from truth.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, “The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.”
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Malinformation is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the wrong direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth, than ignorance.
Few practical errors in the world are embraced on conviction, but on inclination; for through his judgment may err on account of weakness, yet, where one error enters at this door, ten are let into it through the will; that, for the most part, being set upon those things which truth is a direct obstacle to the enjoyment of; and where both cannot be had, a man will be sure to buy his enjoyment, though he pays down truth for the purchase.
In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Walpole.
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. From pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If any one sincerely, candidly, unselfishly tries to understand and to obey the voice of divine wisdom, he will not go fatally astray.
There is no error so crooked but it hath in it some lines of truth, not is any poison so deadly that it serveth not some wholesome use. Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
Knwles.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Mad. De Stael.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness, while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
Coleridge.
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainly are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretence.
Marcus Antoninus
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Jeremy Taylor.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wise to-day than he was yesterday.
Pope.
The copy-books tell us that “to err is human”. That is wrong. To err is inhuman, to be holy is to live in the straight line of duty and of truth to God’s life in every intrinsic existence.
Phillips Brooks.
My principal method for defeating error and heresy, is, by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares; but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
John Newton.
Wrong conduct is far more powerful to produce erroneous thinking, than erroneous thinking to produce wrong conduct.
J.S. Kieffer.
Error commonly has some truth in what it affirms, is wrong generally in what it denies.
F.L. Patton.
Half the truth will very often amount to absolute falsehood.
Whately.
No tempting form of error is without some latent chamr derived from truth.
Keith.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, “The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.”
Bovee.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Malinformation is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the wrong direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth, than ignorance.
Colton.
Few practical errors in the world are embraced on conviction, but on inclination; for through his judgment may err on account of weakness, yet, where one error enters at this door, ten are let into it through the will; that, for the most part, being set upon those things which truth is a direct obstacle to the enjoyment of; and where both cannot be had, a man will be sure to buy his enjoyment, though he pays down truth for the purchase.
South.
In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Walpole.
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. From pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief.
Sydney Smith
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius.
If any one sincerely, candidly, unselfishly tries to understand and to obey the voice of divine wisdom, he will not go fatally astray.
H.L. Wayland.
There is no error so crooked but it hath in it some lines of truth, not is any poison so deadly that it serveth not some wholesome use. Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
Tupper.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
Clulow.
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