Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Quality

• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Travel, Quality

• We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perfection, Contentment, Quality

• He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Happiness, Quality

• One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Average, Quality, Taste

  "Conversations with Eckermann". Book by Johann Peter Eckermann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, February 26, 1824.

• Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
  [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blood, Quality, Juice

• We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Character, Understanding

• So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forever, Quality, Spirit

• The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Mind, Quality

• Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Quality, Favour

• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Color, Hypocrisy

• It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Sight, Discovery

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.74, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Personal Qualities, Vanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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