I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
