Quotes about Error
For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
— John Milton
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
— John Milton
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
You correct an error by bringing truth to it.
— Wayne Dyer
Truth is immortal error is mortal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Most critics are not well-equipped to defend their own faith. They have rarely thought through what they believe and have relied more on generalizations and slogans than on careful reflection. To expose their error, take your cue from Columbo. Scratch your head, rub your chin, pause for a moment, then say, "Do you mind if I ask you a question?
— Francis J. Beckwith
In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.
— Brennan Manning
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
— Aristotle
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
— St. Augustine
Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.
— Margaret Atwood
orr we find a typo in a book.
— Seth Godin
It is in the presence of God alone that the Christian can exert his spiritual energies with effect. Abiding in Christ, maintains us in that presence. A more unhappy error cannot befall a believer than to separate, in the habit of his mind, acquired knowledge from the living Christ.
— AW Pink