Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — 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 Image
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 Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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