All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Lying”

“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
“Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.”
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
“Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.”
“In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.”
“Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.”
“When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.”
“It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.”
“Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!”
“On all the peaks lies peace.”

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