A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Alike Astray Blame Coldness Led Praise Sympathy

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

Gunter Grass

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

Nat Hentoff

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

Gorgias

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

Virginia Woolf

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

Alexander Pope

Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.

Lydia Sigourney

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Catherine the Great

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.

Hermann Hesse

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Roger von Oech

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

Mason Cooley

Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.