Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
Consider the following quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
"Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be."
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
"Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never "