Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
More Quotes from Sydney Smith:
The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.Sydney Smith
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
Sydney Smith
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
Sydney Smith
'Heat, ma'am' I said 'it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.'
Sydney Smith
We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.
Sydney Smith
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Danger & Risk Quotes, Error & Mistake Quotes, Truth QuotesBased on Keywords: circulation, mingled
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.
Selma Blair
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau