Ability quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
"A man's errors are what make him amiable."
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words."
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."