Lying Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When one is polite in German, one lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe