Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

If a man devotes himself to the promotion of science, he is firstly opposed, and then he is informed that his ground is already occupied. At first men will allow no value to what we tell them, and then they behave as if they knew it all themselves.


Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, #571 (p. 199)


If a man devotes himself to the promotion of science, he is firstly opposed, and then he is informed that his ground is already occupied. At first...

If a man devotes himself to the promotion of science, he is firstly opposed, and then he is informed that his ground is already occupied. At first...

If a man devotes himself to the promotion of science, he is firstly opposed, and then he is informed that his ground is already occupied. At first...

If a man devotes himself to the promotion of science, he is firstly opposed, and then he is informed that his ground is already occupied. At first...