Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Communication
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the 'No.'
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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Die Botschaft hor ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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He who maintains he's right-if his the gift of tongues- Will have the last word certainly.
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A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Mathematicians are [like] a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately something quite different.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.