7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Character

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on character

8. A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

9. A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

91. A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

104. Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

126. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

132. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

133. The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny - that which we call character - but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible.