“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768), Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography (1884)
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