Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

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

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.