Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Truth burns up error.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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.

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.

Error is worse than ignorance.

Truth is error burned up.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

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

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

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.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.