Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.