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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We all err, but everybody errs... A quote often attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Note 

Note




Quote source: Quote of uncertain origin. No reliable source confirms that Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is the author. The phrase remains nevertheless appreciated and shared for its meaning.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wir irren allesamt, nur jeder irret anders.

French
Nous sommes tous dans l'erreur, mais chacun à sa façon.




See also 

See also...



Any man can make mistakes.




Quotes for: mistake


Quotes

Quotes about mistake:


Love truth, but pardon error.





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.





Without music, life would be a mistake.





To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.











Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?





The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.





In each of us there is a little of all of us.





He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.





Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.













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