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| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. |
| Error |
| Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible. | 1 |
| But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the same opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences. Edmund Burke: Vindic. of Nat. Society, 1756. | 2 |
| It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information 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 on 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 same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has farther to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance. Charles Caleb Colton: Lacon. | 3 |
| Misunderstanding and inattention create more uneasiness in the world than deception and artifice, or, at least, their consequences are more universal. | 4 |
| Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for Error is always talkative. | 5 |
| Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature, for which cause it blusheth thereat, but glorieth in the contrary. Richard Hooker. | 6 |
| The cause of error is ignorance what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable. Richard Hooker. | 7 |
| When men’s affections do frame their opinions, they are in defence of error more earnest, a great deal, than, for the most part, sound believers in the maintenance of truth, apprehending according to the nature of that evidence which scripture yieldeth. Richard Hooker. | 8 |
| To be indifferent whether we embrace falsehood or truth is the great road to error. | 9 |
| Ignorance, with indifferency for truth, is nearer to it than opinion with ungrounded inclination, which is the great source of error. | 10 |
| The foundation of error will lie in wrong measures of probability; as the foundation of vice in wrong measures of good. | 11 |
| To a wrong hypothesis may be reduced the errors that may be occasioned by a true hypothesis but not rightly understood: there is nothing more familiar than this. | 12 |
| One devious step at first stepping out frequently leads a person into a wilderness of doubt and error. Samuel Richardson. | 13 |
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