“I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Unhappily, moreover, on such occasions, a multitude of painful discoveries about my own sex were forced upon me; and, in truth, I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — 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
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