Quote of Voltaire - Love truth, but pardon error....

Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom

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Quote source: Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom

Wikisource - Voltaire - Œuvres complètes - Discours en vers sur l’homme (fr)

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(French, German, Italian, Spanish)

Aime la vérité mais pardonne à l'erreur.

Voltaire - Discours en vers sur l’homme - De la liberté

Liebe die Wahrheit, doch verzeihe den Irrtum.

Voltaire - Abhandlung in Versen über den Menschen

Ama la verità ma perdona l'errore.

Ama la verdad, pero perdona el error.

Quotes about mistake:

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

Bertrand Russell /

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols /

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan /

All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan /

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflection.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

mistake

All about mistake...

Quotes about tolerance:

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections /

tolerance

Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.

Mahatma Gandhi /

To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.

André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues /

All about tolerance...

Quotes for: truth

To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Emanuel Swedenborg /

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

André Gide - Ainsi soit-il ou Les jeux sont faits /

The language of truth is simple.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon - Novum organum /

Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.

Bertolt Brecht /

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

All truth quotes...

Quotes about forgiveness:

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Simone Weil /

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi /

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald /

All about forgiveness...

Voltaire also said...

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

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 - Philosophical Dictionary /

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.

Voltaire - Épîtres /

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.

Voltaire /

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