Quality Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12 Quality quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s literary finesse is evident in twelve polished thoughts on quality. The verses balance philosophical depth with lyrical grace, giving readers a refined perspective on excellence.

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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

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The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,…

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have…

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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others:…

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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the…

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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,…

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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own…

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I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities…

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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight…

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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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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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