Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

On all the peaks lies peace... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Precaution is better than cure... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Superstition is the poetry of life... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?.. view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We don't get to know people when they come to us.. view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We will burn that bridge when we come to it... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one... view

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe