Judging Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11 Judging quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s reflections on judging arrive in eleven succinct lines that blend philosophical depth with poetic brevity, offering a concise glimpse into his literary mind.

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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

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Doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay...

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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to…

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There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they…

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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with…

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As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul…

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.…

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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