"But don't despise error. When touched by genius,……" — Stefan Zweig
"But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands."
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Stefan Zweig
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53 Quotes by Stefan Zweig
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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once…
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Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly…
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I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I…
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All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among…
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Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea.…
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Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to…
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for…
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The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
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When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed…
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There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of…
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One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
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