Doubt grows with knowledge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doubt grows with knowledge.
In the original German
Met dem Wiffen machs't der Zweifel.
1819
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.
Original citation
Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.