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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ? - We all err, but everybody errs...


Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

We all err, but everybody errs differently.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wir irren allesamt, nur jeder irret anders.

French
Nous sommes tous dans l'erreur, mais chacun à sa façon.




See also 

See also...



Any man can make mistakes.




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.





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.





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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?





He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.





Is it not peculiar that a literal translation is almost always a terrible one? And yet, anything can be translated well. One sees here what it really means to understand fully a language; it means to understand fully the people who speak it.





Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.





Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.






There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.












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