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Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of Carl Gustav Jung - Knowledge rests not upon truth alone...


Biography - Carl Gustav Jung:

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Born: 1875 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Switzerland
Switzerland

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La connaissance repose non seulement sur la vérité, mais aussi sur l'erreur.

German
Wissen beruht nicht nur auf Wahrheit, sondern auch auf Irrtum.




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See also...



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.




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.





Any man can make mistakes.





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 for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.











Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.











Quotes

Carl Gustav Jung also said...


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





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.





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.





Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.












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