Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shows Quotations

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.