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If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius
Mistake, Ignorance, Self
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance, Self, Deception

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius
Truth, Ignorance, Thinking
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom, Truth, Ignorance

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance, Vanity, Principles
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius
Mistake, Ignorance, Self

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance, Errors, Deeds
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius
Home, Ignorance, Dark
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance, Men, Stronger
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.55, Enhanced Media Publishing

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Marcus Aurelius
Forgiveness, Ignorance, Men

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