Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Funny Quotes

• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

• 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

  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teaching

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Humorous, Math

• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

• To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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