It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those… — 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
