Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an…

— Anonymous

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have…

— Francis Bacon

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

— Frederick The Great

“[T]he mind wearies easily when it strives to grapple with the Infinite, and to trace the footsteps of the Almighty as he strides from…

— H. Rider Haggard

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals…

— James Smithson

The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well,…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.”

— Joshua Romqn

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind…

— Blaise Pascal

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our…

— John Locke