Please Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9 Please quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When a literary giant reflects on courtesy, his words are both elegant and direct. Goethe’s nine brief thoughts give a quick, refined glimpse into his view of politeness.

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Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

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The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others…

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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might…

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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will…

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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which…

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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed…

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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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