Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. — 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
