Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths. Goethe.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other. W. B. Clulow.

Error is worse than ignorance. Bailey.

Error never leaves us, yet a higher need 5 always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth. Goethe.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Jefferson.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below. Dryden.

Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. Mme. Swetchine.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; ... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief. Sydney Smith.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther 10 to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Colton.

Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?—Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? Lessing.