Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

Is Joe your father, Zach?' I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to. 'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most people are wrong. Mine is the only right way, and on this subject I feel almost evangelical.

My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents.

I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.

If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.