Quotes by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. >>

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I >>

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through actio >>

Quotations about Persuasion

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. >>

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't bel >>

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him >>

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von