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The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1980, Oxford University Press

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Cowper: Poetical Works Truth l. 1

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 438), 1891.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.251, Lackington, Allen

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.605

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.357, Cambridge University Press

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.150, Hackett Publishing