Alvin Toffler Quotes

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

No one is wise at all times.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

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

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

It's tough never being right.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.

No one is always right.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

I have been wrong enough times to know that it is always a possibility.

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

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

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

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

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

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

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