“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”
Errol Morris (1948) American filmmaker and writer
Source: Foreword to The Secret Parts of Fortune http://www.errolmorris.com/content/belief/rosenbaum.html
“Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error.”
Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson : 1816–1826 (1899) edited by Paul Leicester Ford, v. 2, p. 102
1770s
Context: Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known & seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error.
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