Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us t

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who has a task to perform must know how to take side

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous,

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe