Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Quality

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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Average, Quality, Taste

"Conversations with Eckermann". Book by Johann Peter Eckermann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, February 26, 1824.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Happiness, Quality

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Errors, Mind, Quality

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfection, Contentment, Quality

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Country, Travel, Quality

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Quality, Favour

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Forever, Quality, Spirit