There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — 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
