Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Reputation

• Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, Two, Sight

• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Reputation, Strolling

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.

• I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Chance, Reputation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 667-68, Iphigenia auf Tauris, II. 1. 140, 1922.

• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
  [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Reputation, Strolling

• The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Men, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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