Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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