Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.

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

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known but tries to hide them is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of the truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

What is earnest is not always true on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

If you shut the door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

It is error only and not truth that shrinks from inquiry.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

Ignorance is preferable to error and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.