"When I err every one can see..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.”
“He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”
“Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.”
More on Honesty
“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”
“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”
“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
More on Perception
“I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases”
“The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.”
“It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.”