Quote #91
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
- The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
- Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.
- Doubt grows with knowledge.
- Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
- Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
- Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.