Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.