Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

To err is to be as though truth did not exist. To lay bare the error to oneself and others is retrospective discovery.


Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, #524 (p. 186)


To err is to be as though truth did not exist. To lay bare the error to oneself and others is retrospective discovery.

To err is to be as though truth did not exist. To lay bare the error to oneself and others is retrospective discovery.

To err is to be as though truth did not exist. To lay bare the error to oneself and others is retrospective discovery.

To err is to be as though truth did not exist. To lay bare the error to oneself and others is retrospective discovery.