Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Prejudice

• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Wings, Two

• Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Common Sense

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.96, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Prejudice, Null

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Prejudice, Tasks, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.6, Univ of California Press

• The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Prejudice, Kind, Bans

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