It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
There is no original truth, only original error.
Error is always more busy than truth.
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.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.