We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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