Children Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One spares old people just as one spares children.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...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

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Age doesn’t make us childish, as they say, It finds that we’re still children.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“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

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

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

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

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

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

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

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

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

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

“*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

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

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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