More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

1. A clever man commits no minor blunders. ...
   
2. A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. ...
   
3. A life without love, without the presence of the b ...
   
4. A man can stand anything except a succession of or ...
   
5. A man should hear a little music, read a little po ...
   
6. A man who does not know foreign language is ignora ...
   
7. A man's errors are what make him amiable. ...
   
8. A noble person attracts noble people, and knows ho ...
   
9. Against criticism a man can neither protest nor de ...
   
10. Age does not make us childish, as some say it only ...
    
11. All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden t ...
    
12. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already ...
    
13. Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man ...
    
14. Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opport ...
    
15. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how t ...
    
16. Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantl ...
    
17. Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It woul ...
    
18. Character develops itself in the stream of life. ...
    
19. Character, in great and little things, means carry ...
    
20. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ...
    
21. Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of vi ...
    
22. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They ...
    
23. Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of L ...
    
24. Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our g ...
    
25. Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a ...
    
26. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to mo ...
    
27. Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ...
    
28. Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to gro ...
    
29. Everything a human being wants can be divided into ...
    
30. Everything in the world may be endured except cont ...
    
31. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love ...
    
32. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him h ...
    
33. God could cause us considerable embarrassment by r ...
    
34. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds p ...
    
35. He who seizes the right moment is the right man. ...
    
36. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be ...
    
37. How can you come to know yourself Never by thinkin ...
    
38. I call architecture frozen music. ...
    
39. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe bel ...
    
40. I do not know everything; still many things I unde ...
    
41. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should ...
    
42. I find the great thing in this world is, not so mu ...
    
43. I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow aga ...
    
44. I love those who yearn for the impossible. ...
    
45. I never believed in trying to do anything. Whateve ...
    
46. I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wis ...
    
47. If a man writes a book, let him set down only what ...
    
48. If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him ...
    
49. If children grew up according to early indications ...
    
50. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have crea ...
    
51. If I love you, what business is it of yours ...
    
52. If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what yo ...
    
53. If you treat an individual as he is, he will remai ...
    
54. If your treat an individual ... as if he were what ...
    
55. It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded wom ...
    
56. It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also ...
    
57. Just trust yourself, then you will know how to liv ...
    
58. Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, ...
    
59. Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is no ...
    
60. Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must ...
    
61. Life can only be understood backwards but it must ...
    
62. Life is not anything, but an opportunity for somet ...
    
63. Life is the childhood of our immortality. ...
    
64. Live dangerously and you live right. ...
    
65. Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great de ...
    
66. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ...
    
67. Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achie ...
    
68. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a co ...
    
69. Man is not born to solve the problem of the univer ...
    
70. Man supposes that he directs his life and governs ...
    
71. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say ...
    
72. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly ...
    
73. More light! Give me more light! ...
    
74. My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in ...
    
75. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, ...
    
76. Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, ...
    
77. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how ...
    
78. Noble be man,
    Helpful and good!
    For that a ...
    
79. Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in acti ...
    
80. Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an ol ...
    
81. Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. ...
    
82. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he ...
    
83. Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine thems ...
    
84. Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. ...
    
85. One man's word is no man's word we should quietly ...
    
86. One must ask children and birds how cherries and s ...
    
87. One never goes so far as when one doesn't know whe ...
    
88. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little so ...
    
89. Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune ...
    
90. Our friends show us what we can do our enemies tea ...
    
91. Plunge boldly into the thick of life ...
    
92. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings ...
    
93. Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before yo ...
    
94. Science and art belong to the whole world, and bef ...
    
95. So divinely is the world organized that every one ...
    
96. Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the ...
    
97. Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is ...
    
98. That is the true season of love, when we believe t ...
    
99. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has to ...
    
100. The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfu ...
     
101. The best fortune that can fall to a man is that wh ...
     
102. The first and last thing required of genius is the ...
     
103. The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. ...
     
104. The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed ...
     
105. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridicu ...
     
106. The man of understanding finds everything laughabl ...
     
107. The man who acts never has any conscience no one h ...
     
108. The most original authors are not so because they ...
     
109. The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, e ...
     
110. The society of women is the element of good manner ...
     
111. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artist ...
     
112. The unnatural, that too is natural. ...
     
113. The work of art may have a moral effect, but to de ...
     
114. There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to l ...
     
115. There is nothing more dreadful than imagination wi ...
     
116. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in ...
     
117. There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. ...
     
118. Things which matter most must never be at the merc ...
     
119. Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put ...
     
120. To be loved for what one is, is the greatest excep ...
     
121. To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched stat ...
     
122. To know someone here or there with whom you can fe ...
     
123. To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspi ...
     
124. To rule is easy, to govern difficult. ...
     
125. Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him ...
     
126. Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. ...
     
127. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be ...
     
128. Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. ...
     
129. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks l ...
     
130. We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. ...
     
131. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ...
     
132. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disorde ...
     
133. We know accurately only when we know little with k ...
     
134. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves ...
     
135. What government is the best That which teaches us ...
     
136. What is not fully understood is not possessed. ...
     
137. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. B ...
     
138. When an idea is wanting, a word can always be foun ...
     
139. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ...
     
140. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than ...
     
141. Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal idea ...
     
142. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent ...
     
143. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wi ...
     
144. You will always find [hatred] strongest and most v ...