More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. 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 be…
  2. If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
  3. 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 p…
  4. In art the best is good enough.
  5. 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.
  6. It's not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.
  7. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate …
  8. Joy and sorrow both have part in my solitude.

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