Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.