Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Honor

• Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Honor, Lost Everything

• Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Heart, Honor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

• No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Science, Discovery

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