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Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire
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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.”
Voltaire
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Philosophical Dictionary
forgiveness
mistake
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I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.”
Bertrand Russell
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No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflection.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Reflexions and Maxims
mistake
Any man can make mistakes.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man
mistake
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
John Locke
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Man
mistake
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
Victor Hugo
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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
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Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Twilight of the Idols
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mistake
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The only way to avoid error is ignorance.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Emile, or On Education
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”
Paulo Coelho
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...that this fear of erring is really the error itself.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The Phenomenology of Spirit
fear
mistake
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
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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mistake
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”
Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan
law
mistake
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
Mahatma Gandhi
freedom
mistake
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
experience
mistake
Perhaps men entertain as many truths as falsehoods; have as many good qualities as bad; feel as many pleasures as pains. But we like to malign human nature, in order to try to raise ourselves above the common level, and to acquire for ourselves the respect of which we strive to rob it. We are so presumptuous, that we imagine we can separate our own personal interests from those of humanity in general, and malign the human race without implicating ourselves. This absurd vanity has filled books of philosophy with diatribes against human nature. Man is in disgrace with all thinkers, who rival one another in accusing him of depravity. But perhaps he may be about to rise again and recover all his virtues; nothing is permanent, and philosophy, like clothes, music, architecture, &c, has its vogues.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Reflexions and Maxims
Human nature
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Journal intime
danger
mistake
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Obscurity is the realm of error.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Reflexions and Maxims
mistake
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.”
Karl Popper
History
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science
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
Salvador Dalí
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
Winston Churchill
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
Mahatma Gandhi
mistake
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
Bertolt Brecht
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
Benjamin Franklin
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
Charles Darwin
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
George Bernard Shaw
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