Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mistake Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

By seeking and blundering we learn.