Right To Err Quotes

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

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

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

We have the right to be idiots.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.