Showing posts with label people - Goethe; Johann Wolfgang von. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people - Goethe; Johann Wolfgang von. Show all posts

Jun 13, 2017

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on potential

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet

Apr 26, 2008

Goethe on knowledge

Knowing is not enough. We must apply.

~ ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Feb 27, 2008

Goethe on freedom and slavery

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Feb 19, 2008

Goethe on acting as one thinks

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe