Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe