Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
— JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Writer and polymath · 1749 – 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, poet, playwright and natural philosopher, regarded as Germany's greatest literary figure. His works include the drama Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
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