Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 13.
Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) American physician, educator, author
Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush http://books.google.com/books?id=lSowTqXCyyUC&pg=PA13&dq=%22dreaded+by+the+advocates+of+error%22&hl=en&ei=NCJGTP-fBJ-QnwfB8K2uBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&ved=0CGQQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=%22dreaded%20by%20the%20advocates%20of%20error%22&f=false
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“The source of the errors of these two sects, is in not having known”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne
Context: The source of the errors of these two sects, is in not having known that the state of man at the present time differs from that of his creation; so that the one, remarking some traces of his first greatness and being ignorant of his corruption, has treated nature as sound and without need of redemption, which leads him to the height of pride; whilst the other, feeling the present wretchedness and being ignorant of the original dignity, treats nature as necessarily infirm and irreparable, which precipitates it into despair of arriving at real good, and thence into extreme laxity.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“Truth is an antidote against error. Error is the adultery of the mind.”
Thomas Watson (1616–1686) English nonconformist preacher and author
Heaven Taken By Storm
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.”
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
Vol. I, Preface, p. xiii
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865–1873)
