Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always…

— Saul Alinsky

The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their…

— Carl Hilty

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

— Guy de Rothschild

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

— Izaak Walton

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

— Syd