An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)
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Mahatma Gandhi
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true...
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Irenaeus Of Lyons
... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...
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Marcel Proust
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth
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More Quotes By H. W. Shaw
Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.
Error will slip through a crack while truth will stick in a doorway.
A slander is like a hornet if you cannot kill it dead the first blow better not strike at it.
