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Topic·Truth and error✕clear

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

1569

★ 6.3

Philosophical literature

It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error; and another, to put him in possession of truth.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding · 1690

★ 5.5

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Thomas Jefferson

1779

★ 5.4

Love truth, but pardon error.

1738

★ 3.8

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty · 1859

★ 2.1

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The results would be an Encyclopedia of Error.

1881

★ 1.9