“Truth is an antidote against error. Error is the adultery of the mind.”
Heaven Taken By Storm
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English nonconformist preacher and author 1616–1686Related quotes
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
“If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.”
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur.
"Deuxième discours: de la liberté," Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
Citas
Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.
Maxim 331, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
“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.