"It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"Error is just as important a condition of life as truth." (Carl Gustav Jung)
"Give me fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself." (Vilfredo Pareto)
"All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity." (Thomas Binney)
"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last." (Hugh Walpole)
"All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between these extremes." (Lord David Cecil)
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains." (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion." (Francis Bacon)
"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth." (Alexis Carrel)
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful." (Victor Hugo)
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