W. Edwards Deming Quotes

… fear false knowledge

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

Error is always more busy than truth.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

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

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

Every error is truth abused.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

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

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

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

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Half a truth is often a great lie.