Quotes about Error

'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'

 Criticism Is The Only Known Antidote to Error

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that
(1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in
them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism,
in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own
close relatives.

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error,
by risking, by giving, by losing."

-Anais Nin

The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and error is error even if every everyone believes it.