I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“...we should deal with children as God does with us, who makes us happiest when He lets us stagger in benevolent delusion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy. Do not mention this again: there are people… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“*I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy * The human race is but a monotonous… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Age doesn’t make us childish, as they say, It finds that we’re still children.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast.… — 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
![“Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a3/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_age_age-childish-makes-they-say-but-tis-not_1851271.jpg)
