All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Mistakes”

“Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.”
“It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.”
“For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.”
“It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.”
“There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.”
“It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.”
“The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.”

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