Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Truth
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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He who maintains he's right-if his the gift of tongues- Will have the last word certainly.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.