Quotes by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age >>

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education >>

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. >>

Quotations about Heroes and Heroism

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awake >>

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if >>

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addi >>

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von