Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe