Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Mistakes

• 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

• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

• By seeking and blundering we learn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Mistake, Learning

• Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Science, Building

• Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivation, Mistake, Imagination

• When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Lying

• A clever man commits no minor blunders.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Witty

• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, Mistake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Age, Needs

• It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Self, Rate

• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Fall, Men

• It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Half, Quarters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, People, Wish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.85, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Mistake, Errors

• For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Long, People

• It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Women, Serious

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