19 Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about errors
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Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
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One errs as long as one strives.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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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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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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