Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Praise Quotations

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.