James Hutton Quotes

Error is worse than ignorance.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

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

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.

Everybody drops balls every once in awhile. I just can't let it happen.

If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

Every error is truth abused.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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.

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

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.