Leo Tolstoy Quotes

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

No one who lives in error is free.

… fear false knowledge

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Error is always more busy than truth.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.