Louis Aragon Quotes

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

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

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Error is always more busy than truth.

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

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

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

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

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good