Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Childhood

• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

• Life is the childhood of our immortality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Godly, Childhood

• Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Rights, Childhood

• We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Childhood, Doe

• What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Maturity, Names

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