"It is error only, and not truth,..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.”

“Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.”

“The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.”

“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

“Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.”

“There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.”

“Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.”