It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

  • -- John Locke 约翰·洛克

让一个人知道他犯了错误是一回事,让他掌握真理是另一回事。

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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.

错误毕竟是真理的基础,如果一个人不知道一件事是什么,那么如果他知道它不是什么,那么他至少增加了知识。

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

十有八九,在艺术和生活中,确实有无真相有待发现;只有错误才会暴露出来。