"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Great More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men." "Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age." "One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best." More In Great "People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst."― Frida Kahlo "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."― Bertrand Russell