“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”

“A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.”

“It is better to will the good than to know the truth.”

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

“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”

“The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and then try to prove that it is a fact.”

“A philosopher's renown is increased more by inventing a new error than by repeating a truth that has already been expressed by others.”

“It is more reasonable to remove error from truth, than to venerate error because it is mix'd with truth.”

“People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.”

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”