| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36593 |
| QUOTATION: | It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Locke (16321704), British philosopher. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 11, ed. P. Nidditch, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1975). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Locke Collection. |
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