Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Majority Quotations

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion