Philip James Bailey Quotes

… fear false knowledge

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

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

No one who lives in error is free.

We were almost all wrong

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Truth burns up error.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

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.

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

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

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

'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.