I heard Melvyn Bragg quote Goethe yesterday: 'To act is easy; to think is hard.' I really liked this ( it seems like a justification for my life of lying around 'day dreaming ' and 'doing nothing') so in an attempt to find the rest of Herr Goethe's thoughts on thinking I Googled the quote. It was amusing to find how many people  triumphantly misquote it, reversed, (which is probably how they hear it, being incapable of conceiving the opposite) as a support for their own personal world view, discrediting mere thinking and extolling a life of action. 

I do enjoy a good quote.