Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Convictions are more dangerous enemies of...

Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

Translation

(French, German)

Les convictions sont des ennemies de la vérité plus dangereuses que les mensonges.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Humain, trop humain

Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lügen.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

See also...

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
Voltaire - Questions sur les Miracles

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”
Julius Caesar - Gallic Wars

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

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

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
Gustave Le Bon - The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.”
Paul Valéry

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime

Quotes about danger:

But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.”
Friedrich Hölderlin - Patmos

danger

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
Alfred Adler

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world. ”
Wilhelm von Humboldt

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius - Analects

It's too late to ask for advice when the danger comes.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

danger

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.”
Jules Renard

All about danger...

Quotes for: truth:

Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon - Novum organum

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

The language of truth is simple.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Conformity of the intellect to the things.”
Thomas Aquinas

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.”
Carl Gustav Jung

All truth quotes...

Quotes about lie:

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
Claude Debussy

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

Success has always been a great liar.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”
Alfred Adler

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Albert Camus

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.”
Alfred Adler

All about lie...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

Become who you are!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

to be

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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