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 Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of...
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
