Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

If you shut the door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

It is error only and not truth that shrinks from inquiry.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

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