Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTreat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe