Capable Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9 Capable quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s nine brief reflections on being capable weave his classic literary voice into a concise affirmation of ability.

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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

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Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of…

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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable…

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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied…

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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority…

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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens…

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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels…

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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of…

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Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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