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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
  2. Doubt grows with knowledge.
  3. Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
  4. The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
  5. Alles Vergangliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
  6. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
  7. Wer immer strebend sich bemuht, Den konnen wir erlosen.
  8. A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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Topics in this quote

  • knowledge
  • truth
  • critical thinking
  • error

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