Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

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

Two half truths do not make a truth.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

There is no original truth, only original error.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

No one who lives in error is free.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

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

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

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.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

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

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.