Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Little things please little minds.

Small things amuse small minds.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

How great in number are the little minded men.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

People don't see much further than their noses.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.