"Error is acceptable as long as we..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
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“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
“A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.”
“Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.”
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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.”
“Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.”
More on Youth
“The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.”
“When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.”
“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”