Mistake Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

15 Mistake quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s reflections on missteps are steeped in the same poetic depth that defines his dramas and poems. Across fifteen passages you’ll sense his belief that mistakes can shape destiny.

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By seeking and blundering we learn.

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

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The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry…

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One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

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Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess…

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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion…

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“We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to…

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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable…

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The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of…

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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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