Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Judgment

• No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, Views, Giving

• The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Judgment, Deceiving

• Wisdom is only found in truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Judgment, Found

  "Goethes Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, III,

• Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Judging, Doe, Judgment

• There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reading, Class

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.34

• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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