Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Crime Errors Faults Ignorance Moral
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. — William Osler Copy Share Image
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it. — Marguerite de Navarre Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
