Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Clever Quotations

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.