"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Society More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In art the best is good enough." "This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." "To rule is easy, to govern difficult." More In Society "Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."― Mignon McLaughlin "This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God."― Ray Comfort "To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."― Samuel Butler