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Doubt grows with knowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
  2. The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
  3. Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
  4. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
  5. Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
  6. A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
  7. Alles Vergangliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
  8. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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Topics in this quote

  • philosophy
  • knowledge
  • learning
  • doubt
  • uncertainty

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